Re: Question on External USB 2.0 hard drive enclosures.
On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 12:19, Mike Dresser wrote:
> I'm rather bored with the whole process of having to shut the machine off
> to put a hard drive in it to copy data off the workstation, and would like
> to put a 120 or so gig drive in a USB 2.0 enclosure.
>
> Anyone have some recommendations on who to buy and who to avoid?
>
> I've done a little looking at newegg, and for about 45-50 dollars there's
> a few available, but that doesn't tell me how cooling is, how performance
> is, and how compatibe it is.
>
> I assume these should work just fine with a 2.4.20 kernel, I should be
> able to mount /dev/usb/something?
>
> <*> USB Mass Storage support
>
> [ ] Freecom USB/ATAPI Bridge support
> [ ] ISD-200 USB/ATA Bridge support
>
> oh, and probably one of those I would assume(trial and error?)
Slightly off topic, but I'd look for an IEEE1394-based external
drive, since testing(*) shows that they are much faster than USB2.0-
based drives.
* Tom's Hardware or Anandtech; don't remember.
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