WD portable hard drive question

[Jim Herrmann]

How about a 2TB Seagate drive at Newegg.com for $89:
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>Anyone
have any experience, good or bad, with Seagate?

Peace,
Jim

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Billy Crook <billycrook at 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.
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