Tim wrote: > Does anybody know if the "WD Elements" hard drives in enclosures with > USB ports work with Fedora pain free? My WD Elements 1TB works perfectly here on F10. I don't know how it was partitioned or formatted, I've just rewritten every byte on the disk (I have a big encrypted filesystem on the unpartitioned device). It has an external power supply (the 3.5" SATA disk needs probably too much power for a USB port), but if you disconnect the USB cable the drive just spins down. I found this feature really smart: no wasted power if you have the power supply always connected. > 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. Agreed. My drive is exactly a backup. Multiple copies of the data from many machines (backup scripts based on rsync and hardlinks). -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
