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Re: USB 2.0 Drive Reliability/Stability?



Am Mittwoch, den 02.02.2005, 13:12 -0200 schrieb Rogério Brito:
> On Feb 02 2005, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> > However, I just ordered a firewire/USB 2.0 combo Hard disk, I hope the
> > firewire thingy will work better.
> 
> Well, I have an HD enclosure (Pyro Dual Link Drive Kit DLX-185) with a
> regular IDE HD inside of it. The enclosure has two connectors: one is a USB
> 2.0 and the other is a Firewire port.

I'm waiting for the Western Digital WDXB<blah> 250 GB. Should be similar
to yours.

> Now that I have a vanilla Firewire card, I can use the same drive without
> any problems. In fact, I'm using this drive with an HFS+ filesystem so that
> I can easily share data between my Mac and Linux.
> 
Does that work OK for you? I just ordered a Mac, too, and I'm still
undecided wether to format the HD with HFS+ or FAT32...

joerg

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