[NTLUG:Discuss] External Hard Drive Recommendation

[Jeff Demel]

Thanks, Steve.

I should have specified the amount of data I'll be lugging back and forth.
I will need at least a Gig, and something closer to 5GB would be nice.  From
what I've seen, the entry level external drives are about 20GB, so that's
more than enough.  I think the memory sticks are too small, though.

-Jeff


> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
> Behalf Of Steve Baker
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 11:37 AM
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> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] External Hard Drive Recommendation
>
>
> Jeff Demel wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I have Red Hat 9 at home and Windows 2000 Pro at work, and want
> to get an
> > external hard drive to carry data back and forth.
> >
> > I'm hoping that just about any USB 2.0 compatible external
> drive will work
> > fine, but would like to hear any recommendations or warnings y'all might
> > have.
>
> Depending on how much storage space you need, you might want to go with
> one of those solid state memory sticks.  I have a 512Mb Cig at r stick - and
> it works very nicely with modern Linux'en.  SuSE and GenToo (which are the
> two distro's I use) can be set up to auto-mount them.  Then it's just like
> any other disk drive.  It's about the size of a Magic Marker and since it
> has no moving parts, I feel happier about having it bounce around
> in my pocket
> than I would an actual disk drive.  It cost $48 in Fry's and with
> about the
> same capacity of a CD-ROM, it's pretty useful.
>
> Of course if you need more space than that - then a USB disk drive is the
> right answer.
>
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