I picked up another external usb/sata hard drive since the first one seems to be so useful. This time, it's an enclosed 2.5" drive instead of the 3.5" docked drive. In case anyone is thinking about an external drive and wants to avoid risk, here's what I got... The drive: Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD2500BEVT 250GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136387 The enclosure: Rosewill RX81U-AT-25A Rigid aluminum 2.5" SATA to USB 2.0 Ext. Enclosure http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182138 Total cost was just under $60 with shipping, a bit higher than the "combo" drives but this way I know which drive I'm getting :-) Tested (lightly) on x86-64, trimslice, panda, and olpc - they all worked just fine with a single USB A plugged in, although the provided cable was a Y cable in case you needed more power (i.e. two USB A plugged in). The x86-64 showed an easily sustainable 37 MB/s streaming read, which I think is the USB2 upper limit. The trimslice showed a sustained 25 MB/s, panda 23-25 MB/s (that internal hub is shared with ethernet) and the OLPC 10-25 MB/s (not sure what else it was doing). They all peaked at 25 MB/s which is the most I've ever seen an ARM board do. The OLPC even mounted it automatically (I had fdisk'd it earlier). The drive is a snug fit in the enclosure - no internal screws to hold it in place, but the case required a slight squeeze to close, so there must be something flexible in there pressing the drive into the connector. No rattles. The enclosure has a separate DC power jack but does not come with a wall wart. The USB chip does tell the host that it's self powered, though, which is obviously a lie when you only have the USB plugged in. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
