Looking to add permanently mounted USB drive

[Michael Hennebry]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

> On 10/22/2010 11:10 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:

>> The thing to watch out for is drives like some western digitals which
>> come with an insanely annoying artifical "cdrom" as part of the
>> drive. It isn't really a cdrom, so it confuses things that
>> expect it to be one and clutters your desktop with phony icons,
>> and there is no way I've found to just make it disappear.

What is it really?

> I was leery of the WD drive discription:
>
> http://www.ecost.com/prod/Storage/External+Storage/Hard+Drives/USB+HDD/Western+Digital+1TB+My+Book+Essential+External+USB+20+Hard+Drive+-+WDBAAF0010HBK-NESN/57614572.aspx?navid=155441514*

What made you leery?


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