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