Re: Seagate external firewire opinion
On Oct 15 2005, Willie Gnarlson wrote:
> Hello lovers of all that is Debian,
Hi there, Willie.
> I am thinking of purchasing an external Seagate USB 2.0 / Firewire
> hard drive for use for backing up the systems on my LAN
Well, I have a similar situation here: I have an IDE drive in an
Firewire/USB 2.0 enclosure (the enclosure is an ADS Tech Dual Link Drive
Kit DLX-185, if my memory serves me) and I use it for backup purposes.
The drive has 160GB and is serving me well, even though I also backup
the essential things in CDs and DVDs.
> Does anyone have any horror or success stories with the external
> Seagate drives (possible models: ST3160024A-RK, ST3300801CB-RK, or
> ST3200823A-RK)?
I can't speak for those Seagate drives, but the one I have here is a
Seagate drive and it runs quite well with Linux and Firewire.
In fact, I am using it in Firewire mode all the time, since the USB
connectors that I have on my computer are only USB 1.1, but I've heard
that the performance of Firewire/400 is superior to that of USB 2.0 for
a number of reasons.
> Thanks a lot for reading.
Hope this helps, Rogério.
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