On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:36:28 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > I am going to buy a big USB hard drive to backup films, music and > photos. In fact, I might backup the system (at least, the list of > packages installed).
If you're using the disk to make a backup for one machine, USB (better 3.0) can be convenient and easy but despite the interface, have you considered in buying a good external USB enclosure -with external power- and a separate hard disk? I find it to be a better solution than those "ready-made-and-closed" external tera-disks. > Anybody out there tried a 2TB USB hard drive? What did you use as filing > system. I am intending to use ext4. Any comments? For home, I use an internal SATA disk (500 GiB) as primary backup (ext3) and then a NAS system as a secondary (backup for the backup) level of security, also formatted with ext3 which is the best option available for the NAS (only ext2, ext3 or FAT32 is allowed ;-) ). I'm against big partitions (500 GiB is the limit I have auto-imposed to my systems) so I would make 4 slices and spread the data over them. Anyway, I don't think you are going to have any problem to manage a single partition of 2 TiB, even more if you plain to store plain data (not a bootable system) there. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jmur37$g9$2...@dough.gmane.org