What's a good external HDD to buy these days? (2.5" size)
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From: Robert Nichols on 22 Oct 2009 19:43 In article <SYadnRrrINwFCEPXnZ2dnUVZ_tKdnZ2d(a)earthlink.com>, Ant <ant(a)zimage.comANT> wrote: : :Oh good. I remember NTFS was really bad under Linux. It had a buggy :write option too in Kernel or something. I assume newer Mac OS X :versions (ignoring 10.2.x) can do the same now? The NTFS module in the Linux kernel is still just as you remember and should not be used for writing. Kernel NTFS support been made pretty much obsolete by the current user-space driver, ntfs-3g, which supports everything except transparent compression and encryption (still read-only for those). Wikipedia has a pretty good description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS-3G Once the ntfs-3g package for your distro has been installed, NTFS works just like any other supported file system. -- Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42"
From: Robert Nichols on 22 Oct 2009 19:55 In article <d9-dncJnZYMrgEPXnZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d(a)earthlink.com>, Ant <ANTant(a)zimage.com> wrote: : :There are two bad things. I hate its short USB cable. I assume I can use :an USB extension cable without problems. Also, its warranty is only two :years? No five years? For devices that draw significant power from the USB port, the length of cable you can use is quite limited. You should be able to get away with using a short one, but keep it as short as possible. IMO, the short warranty for these external drives comes largely from the assumption that they are likely to receive rougher treatment than a drive mounted in a heavier piece of equipment. For the higher-powered 3.5" drives, lack of fans is also an issue. -- Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42"
From: Ant on 23 Oct 2009 10:36 On 10/22/2009 4:43 PM PT, Robert Nichols typed: > In article <SYadnRrrINwFCEPXnZ2dnUVZ_tKdnZ2d(a)earthlink.com>, > Ant <ant(a)zimage.comANT> wrote: > : > :Oh good. I remember NTFS was really bad under Linux. It had a buggy > :write option too in Kernel or something. I assume newer Mac OS X > :versions (ignoring 10.2.x) can do the same now? > > The NTFS module in the Linux kernel is still just as you remember and > should not be used for writing. Kernel NTFS support been made pretty > much obsolete by the current user-space driver, ntfs-3g, which supports > everything except transparent compression and encryption (still > read-only for those). Wikipedia has a pretty good description: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS-3G > > Once the ntfs-3g package for your distro has been installed, NTFS > works just like any other supported file system. Interesting. I didn't know there were more than one NTFS stuff in Linux. It looks like I have it in my old Debian box: $ locate ntfs-3g /usr/lib/libntfs-3g.so.5 /usr/lib/libntfs-3g.so.5.0.0 /usr/share/doc/libntfs-3g5 /usr/share/doc/libntfs-3g5/NEWS.gz /usr/share/doc/libntfs-3g5/README /usr/share/doc/libntfs-3g5/README.Debian /usr/share/doc/libntfs-3g5/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libntfs-3g5/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/libntfs-3g5/copyright /var/lib/dpkg/info/libntfs-3g13.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/libntfs-3g13.postrm -- "I'm not afraid of insects taking over the world, and you know why? It would take about a million ants just to aim a gun at me, let alone fire it. And you know what I'm doing while they're aiming it at me? I just sort of slip off to the side, and then suddenly run up and kick the gun out of their hands." --Jack Handy from Saturday Night Live /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: philpi(a)earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant(a)zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
From: Ant on 23 Oct 2009 10:38 On 10/22/2009 4:55 PM PT, Robert Nichols typed: > In article <d9-dncJnZYMrgEPXnZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d(a)earthlink.com>, > Ant <ANTant(a)zimage.com> wrote: > : > :There are two bad things. I hate its short USB cable. I assume I can use > :an USB extension cable without problems. Also, its warranty is only two > :years? No five years? > > For devices that draw significant power from the USB port, the length of > cable you can use is quite limited. You should be able to get away with > using a short one, but keep it as short as possible. What's the length limit? It's long enough from the bottom of the PC case to the top of my desk. I dislike putting it on the floor. > IMO, the short warranty for these external drives comes largely from the > assumption that they are likely to receive rougher treatment than a > drive mounted in a heavier piece of equipment. For the higher-powered > 3.5" drives, lack of fans is also an issue. Ah. I hope this 2.5" Seagate one has a fan. I don't hear or feel anything. -- "Ant colonies are remarkably similar to cities. No one choreographs the action, not even the queen ant, but ant behavior is controlled by swarm logic--put 10,000 dumb ants together, and they become smart. They will calculate the shortest routes to food supplies sniffing out pheromone signals from other ants and Johnson says people do the same thing in cities using low-level interactions of people on the street." --Alex Cukan, "Stories of modern science," United Press International, October 8, 2001 /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: philpi(a)earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant(a)zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
From: Rod Speed on 23 Oct 2009 14:48
Ant wrote > Robert Nichols wrote >> Ant <ANTant(a)zimage.com> wrote >>> There are two bad things. I hate its short USB cable. I assume I can use an USB extension cable without problems. >>> Also, its warranty is only two years? No five years? >> For devices that draw significant power from the USB port, the >> length of cable you can use is quite limited. You should be able to >> get away with using a short one, but keep it as short as possible. > What's the length limit? There isnt any nice tidy limit with that. > It's long enough from the bottom of the PC case to the top of my desk. I dislike putting it on the floor. Thats fine. >> IMO, the short warranty for these external drives comes largely from the assumption that they are likely to receive >> rougher treatment than a drive mounted in a heavier piece of equipment. For the higher-powered 3.5" drives, lack of >> fans is also an issue. > Ah. I hope this 2.5" Seagate one has a fan. None of the 2.5" drives do, they dont need one. > I don't hear or feel anything. Because there isnt one. |