On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 08:44 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I am looking at expanding my disk space on my box. I have turned my eye > to these little external boxes. > > I was wondering has any one else on the list used one of these. > > I was hoping to connect to it with esata (the reason for the lacie esata > controller). A quick google brings me lots of adds to sell but no into > on the controller and how I will see the drives. > > My initial thought is to have them in hardware raid1 ( I am going to > raid them any way no need to flood the bus with twice the amount of > traffic). If i use raid1 and esata will linux only see one drive and > how do I tell if there is an error with the drive ?
don't know about this particular unit, but my experience of external drives generally has been appalling to the point that I've given up. Every external firewire/usb drive i've used has ended up giving me hard drive failure, and in some cases heart failure. Other people whose opinion I respect have come to the same conclusion. I get the impression that the problem has to do with power supply on the external device, but I haven't figured that out for certain. I haven't used Lacies. Are they better? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
