[ale] external USB drives, brand recommendations?

[James P. Kinney III]

Thermaltake Max 4 works very well with Linux. It uses an internal SATA
300 drive and support USB 2.0 and eSATA connections.

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 10:53 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> 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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