[ale] external USB drives, brand recommendations?

[Greg Freemyer]

Pete,

Hope your doing good. And Merry Christmas.

Anyway:
The quality of external USB drives seems to have rapidly dropped in
the last 6 months.  Maybe because they have moved to using Sata drives
inside and the USB <--> Sata electronics is still buggy.

ie. We just bought some Buffalo's.  They did not work reliably even
from Windows.

Ended up opening the case and directly connecting the drives via sata.
 Want some barely used cases?  (Have at least 2.)

Not sure what to recommend, but make sure the recommendation is from
very recent experience, or maybe find something that is still parallel
IDE inside the case.  Don't remember ever having problems with that
variety regardless of make/model.

Greg



On Dec 21, 2007 2:10 AM, Robert Reese <ale at sixit.com> wrote:
> Hi Pete,
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> On 12/20/2007 at 4:59 PM Pete Hardie wrote:
>
> >Hello all,
> >
> >I was asked to be more specific in my Christmas list, and give a brand
> >name for the external USB hard drive
> >I had on the list.
> >
> >I've heard rumors of various brands not playing well with Linux, so I
> >thought to harvest the crowd-sourcing power
> >of the ALErs, and ask what y'all recommend to get/avoid.
>
>
> Just stay away from WD.  God awful support and a penchant for their power supplies to go bad.  Their solutions?  A: Send in the drive for warranty and kiss your data goodbye, B: otherwise, the official recommendation is an extremely expensive data recovery outfit they've contracted with.  Lastly, C: deep-six your warranty and open the case.
>
> I've bought my last WD/Maxtor.
>
> (P.S. Anyone know of an *excellent* PCB repair outfit that won't kill me on price?)
>
> Cheers,
> Robert~
>
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