FC4 and external hard drive (USB)
Jonathan Underwood
j.underwood at open.ac.uk
Fri Aug 12 12:09:38 UTC 2005
Jonathan Berry wrote:
>
> Nice name ;).
My parents thought so :)
> I would highly suggest that you consider buying a hard
> drive enclosure and an internal drive to go in it. I think you can
> get a lot more for your money that way, and you can have more control
> over the kind of enclosure you get. An enclosure will cost you
> about $30 - $40 probably and then you can use an internal drive which
> are generally much less expensive, especially if you don't mind
> rebates. I have a CompUSA USB enclosure with a 250 GB Matxor drive
> and it works quite well with Fedora. I'm not a fan of Maxtor or any
> other drive manufacturer, it was just the best deal at the time. The
> drive does get warm when in use, but the heat does not seem
> excessive.
This is the route I have taken. I did some considerable research into
hard drive enclosures with IDE-USB chipsets before purchasing such an
enclosure, and it turns out that many of the ones with USB2.0 and
Firewire ports are based on the PL-3507 chipset, which seems to cause
major headaches with even the latest kernels, and even the other
operating system. So I avoided those, and went for one of these in the end:
http://www.rlsupplies.co.uk/products/product.asp?id=156494
I was keen to get an aluminium one to dissipate heat. This one doesn't
have a fan, however. I would in the future buy one with a fan. I stuck a
Seagate Barracuda 80 GB drive in there (set as master), and it all seems
to work fantastically with FC4.
Thanks for the advice, everyone.
Jonathan.
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