Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > > On 07/16/2009 09:58 AM, Tim wrote: >> Now I'm wondering what can be trusted as a medium for removable backups. >> I much prefer the notion of something like a drive that carries >> uncompressed copies of files, for direct access to a backup. Rather >> than serial access tapes, or terribly slow multi-DVD collections. > > I found USB drives to be hugely unreliable. I ended up removing the > disks from their enclosures and using them inside the main computer > chassis, like a normal drive. > > I think something is buggy with the USB drive implementation, though I > don't know what exactly (kernel driver, enclosure electronics, who > knows...) > > I have been using a Seagate FreeAgent Go external usb drive for this purpose for some time and has worked flawlessly. When I got the drive I simply re-partitioned it with ext3 from scratch, and removed all trace of the Windows one-touch backup system in the process. Plugging in to F10 and F11 based systems under Gnome works just fine and I run backups based on rsync (and rdiff-backup). The drive is physically small and neat and the only minor issue is the short usb lead that comes with the drive. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/good-external-hard-drives-%28e.g.-WD-Elements%29--tp24516965p24531835.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
