On Tuesday 01 May 2007 09:22:43 am Greg Freemyer wrote: > On 5/1/07, Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 May 2007 08:26:12 am Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > > I looking to buy an external hard drive to backup (not archive) my > > > laptop. It has USB 2.0. I am looking for a desktop solution, i.e., > > > don't need nor want to pay for portable powered USB drives. Capacity > > > 80GB to 160GB range. Any recommendations and/or condemnations? > > > > I have a few. I use them for backups. > > > > The most recent one I got was from Fry's. I bought a 300 GB (that's using > > the "new" term for GB) drive and a Linksys enclosure for around $120 > > combined. > > > > I ended up formatting it with FAT32. > > I had someone fairly knowledgeable tell me that in the real world they > are seeing problems when using FAT32 on 500GB and above drives. We've > been using FAT32 for all our external drives too, but we are > initiating the process of deciding if we want to go to EXT2 or NTFS > for the future. > > I looked into this 2 or 3 years ago and did not feel comfortable going > either way at that time so we stayed with FAT. But compatible drivers > seem to have improved in both directions since then. >
I have one drive (160GB) formatted with Reiser. It is painfully slow to access and update. It does transfer fast. I've also got rfsgui32 loaded on my expee and 2K machines. I just remember someone mentioning that FAT32 - when formatted through SUSE - is pretty good. So far, no problems. I might try EXT3, though, as my Wintendo machines are becoming fewer and fewer. I might even buy a Dell next time, now that they provide Ubuntu pre-loaded. (Of course, I wonder where I'm going to find the Trial AOL icon.) -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
