On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:51:24AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 15 2005, Willie Gnarlson wrote: > > Hello lovers of all that is Debian,
> Hi there, Willie. Hi, Rogério. > > I am thinking of purchasing an external Seagate USB 2.0 / Firewire > > hard drive for use for backing up the systems on my LAN > Well, I have a similar situation here: I have an IDE drive in an > Firewire/USB 2.0 enclosure (the enclosure is an ADS Tech Dual Link Drive > Kit DLX-185, if my memory serves me) and I use it for backup purposes. > The drive has 160GB and is serving me well, even though I also backup > the essential things in CDs and DVDs. Ah, I see, that would be a better solution for me, too (the external enclosure and a standard 3.5 drive). > > Does anyone have any horror or success stories with the external > > Seagate drives (possible models: ST3160024A-RK, ST3300801CB-RK, or > > ST3200823A-RK)? > I can't speak for those Seagate drives, but the one I have here is a > Seagate drive and it runs quite well with Linux and Firewire. > In fact, I am using it in Firewire mode all the time, since the USB > connectors that I have on my computer are only USB 1.1, but I've heard > that the performance of Firewire/400 is superior to that of USB 2.0 for > a number of reasons. Great! This is what I'm probably going to use (with USB port in addition to Firewire in case of Armageddon): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822148025 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817145657 The total price is comparable to the single product, and I can swap out the hard drive if needed. Thanks for your input, it helped! -- Willie Gnarlson
