Jonathan Berry wrote:
Nice name ;).
My parents thought so :)
I would highly suggest that you consider buying a hard
drive enclosure and an internal drive to go in it. I think you can
get a lot more for your money that way, and you can have more control
over the kind of enclosure you get. An enclosure will cost you
about $30 - $40 probably and then you can use an internal drive which
are generally much less expensive, especially if you don't mind
rebates. I have a CompUSA USB enclosure with a 250 GB Matxor drive
and it works quite well with Fedora. I'm not a fan of Maxtor or any
other drive manufacturer, it was just the best deal at the time. The
drive does get warm when in use, but the heat does not seem
excessive.
This is the route I have taken. I did some considerable research into
hard drive enclosures with IDE-USB chipsets before purchasing such an
enclosure, and it turns out that many of the ones with USB2.0 and
Firewire ports are based on the PL-3507 chipset, which seems to cause
major headaches with even the latest kernels, and even the other
operating system. So I avoided those, and went for one of these in the end:
http://www.rlsupplies.co.uk/products/product.asp?id=156494
I was keen to get an aluminium one to dissipate heat. This one doesn't
have a fan, however. I would in the future buy one with a fan. I stuck a
Seagate Barracuda 80 GB drive in there (set as master), and it all seems
to work fantastically with FC4.
Thanks for the advice, everyone.
Jonathan.
