On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 18:04 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 23:28 +0930, Tim wrote: > > Does anybody know if the "WD Elements" hard drives in enclosures with > > USB ports work with Fedora pain free? I've heard tales of some drive > > enclosures that go asleep on you, but can't recall if it were this range > > of models, and there's some of these on sale locally for a reasonable > > price. > > I think buying an external enclosure and drive separately is a better > option. > > My experience with the quality of drives sold as "external drives" has > not been good. Check the warranty periods on the external drives you're > looking at. They're typically just for one or two years; occasionally > three years. The WD Elements drive you're looking at appears just to > have a one year warrany[1]. Meanwhile, look at the warranty periods for > most internal SATA drives: they're typically at least three years; and > it's not too hard to find drives with five year warranties. > > Buying the drive separately from the enclosure means that you can get a > higher quality, more reliable drive. > > [1] http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp?wdc_lang=en > > -- > Braden McDaniel <braden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > I would totally agree that buying separate "box" and "disk" is a better plan. I would probably go further and say buy an eSATA enclosure, separate disk and a USB to eSATA converter Then comes the problem mentioned earlier - what chip is in the converter? My Lindy eSATA adapter shows up as 13fd:160e Initio Corporation The only chip on their web site is INIC-1605 However 13fd seems to be Micro Science Inc not Initio Corporation which is listed as 1101 In practice my machine will copy a 2.4GB file from int SATA disk to ext SATA disk at approx 50MB/s eSATA and 25MB/s with the USB/eSATA adapter OT OCZ Throttle memory stick - has USB and eSATA I/F eSATA I/F [root@naxos ~]# hdparm -t /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: Timing buffered disk reads: 268 MB in 3.00 seconds = 89.28 MB/sec USB I/F 152d:0602 JMicron Technology Corp /dev/sdb1: Timing buffered disk reads: 102 MB in 3.05 seconds = 33.48 MB/sec John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
