How about a 2TB Seagate drive at Newegg.com for $89:<div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148503&cm_mmc=ENCORET-_-414-_-N82E16822148503&nm_mc=ENCORET">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148503&cm_mmc=ENCORET-_-414-_-N82E16822148503&nm_mc=ENCORET</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148503&cm_mmc=ENCORET-_-414-_-N82E16822148503&nm_mc=ENCORET"></a>Anyone have any experience, good or bad, with Seagate?</div><div>
<br></div><div>Peace,</div><div>Jim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Billy Crook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:billycrook@gmail.com">billycrook@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I wouldn't buy a WD mybook, or any WD external drive for that matter,<br>
at least for another few years. They lost my trust when they started<br>
doing the special-software-required crap. It may be possible to get<br>
their drives to work in gnu, but they chose to muddy the waters. I<br>
won't reward that with a sale.<br>
<br>
I recently bought a 2TB external seagate from Microcenter for $109. I<br>
wouldn't waste my desk space on anything smaller than 2TB these days,<br>
and its twice the deal this WD one is. And I didn't wonder if it<br>
would come with proprietary crapware required to make it work right.<br>
I did however, ask the salesclerk if I could return it for a full<br>
refund if it didn't work out of the box with gnu+linux.<br>
<br>
udevadm monitor<br>
(plugged in drive)<br>
(saw device node)<br>
ctrl-c<br>
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdg bs=1M count=1<br>
parted /dev/sdg mklabel gpt<br>
parted /dev/sdg mkpart primary<br>
mkfs.ext4 -j -O extents,dir_index,sparse_super /dev/sdg1<br>
mkdir /mnt/usb<br>
echo /dev/sdg1 /mnt/usb ext4 noatime 0 0 >> /etc/fstab<br>
mount /mnt/usb<br>
<br>
And I've been using for the last couple weeks without fail.<br>
<br>
Or if you use a gui automounter, and are ok with whatever filesystem<br>
comes on it, just plug it in and it will pop up.<br>
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