[H-GEN] External Hard Drives

[Simon Cole]

Thanks.

WD's unlock program won't run on Ubuntu 11.10. It's certainly not plug and play - the unlock.exe simply opens qBitorrent and doesn't download anything to run; nor do any other applications appear to run it. Maybe there's a simple solution that I don't know... From what I can see WD is not good with Linux if you want to maintain encryption.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1284828&highlight=wd+unlock+exe

I ask the question because non of the brands claim to run on a Linux distribution (not surprisingly), nor can I fund up-to-date info in forums.

I don't need portable, but that's not important. I will need to run it on both Linux and Windows. Powered 1TBs go for $100. Ease of use matters more than encryption to me (if encryption is for security). 


Yours,

Simon

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 From: Gary Curtis <gazilla at gmail.com>
To: Simon Cole <mellowcotton at yahoo.com> 
Cc: Humbug Linux Support Group <general at lists.humbug.org.au> 
Sent: Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] External Hard Drives
 

All of them should be "compatible". They are just regular HDs formatted with some Win FS.
If you are NEVER sharing them with Windows/OSX then you can reformat them with any 
of the Linux file systems (ext3/ext4/whatever).

If all you want is a single TB then I would recommend one of the 2.5" USB3 babies.
If you don't have any USB3 ports now they will work happily on USB2. Once you move
to USB3 they will fly. A USB3 PCI express card for a desktop/tower is only $20.

I have a couple of the "Western Digital Elements Portable 1TB 2.5 HDD USB3" that you
will find on the Umart site for $130. Never had a problem with them. They self-power on
any USB2 or 3 port.

One thing to watch is the device end of the supplied cable. The PC end is always a standard 
USB3 'A' connector (looks like and works in USB2, but has extra contacts). The WD drive 
(and the Seagate one) have a modified MicroUSB connector at the other end. 
One of these... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Connector_USB_3_IMGP6033_wp_.jpg

I find these the best as the wider section is a standard USB2 MicroUSB connector and you
can use the older standard USB2 cables to connect the device at USB2 speeds.

Gary
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Simon Cole <mellowcotton at yahoo.com> wrote:

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>What external hard drives (for data storage only) are compatible with Ubuntu 11.10 &/or Fudora 17?
>I need to go out and buy a new 1TB one and the brands I've seen are Buffalo, Seagate and Phillips.
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