On 7/16/09, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does anybody know if the "WD Elements" hard drives in enclosures with > USB ports work with Fedora pain free? I've heard tales of some drive > enclosures that go asleep on you, but can't recall if it were this range > of models, and there's some of these on sale locally for a reasonable > price. > > I had some unidentifiable brand of hard drive enclosure with a Seagate > drive in it that died on me some time ago (the drive gets multiplying > read errors). And I want to find a decent replacement, without a silly > price, or a crappy fan that's going to make annoying noises or seize up. > > You try to be diligent, doing your backups to an external drive, then > the backup drive is the thing to go west! :-\ Thank goodness I have > the original files to back up the backup... And, yes, the drive got > treated with kid gloves, and I don't expect hard drives to be treated > any other way. > > Now I'm wondering what can be trusted as a medium for removable backups. > I much prefer the notion of something like a drive that carries > uncompressed copies of files, for direct access to a backup. Rather > than serial access tapes, or terribly slow multi-DVD collections. I'd stay clear of any external drive that smells of having been made for Windows users (say, those that have a button for starting backup). Just get a good HD, same as you'd want as an internal drive, and a simple enclosure. Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
