Removable drives

Andre Mangan andremangan at gmail.com
Fri Nov 3 06:22:40 GMT 2006


Thank you to all of you.  That is good news.  If I were to assemble a case
with a hard drive, what connection do I use - IDE, SATA, USB, Firewire?

I actually bought the little Maxtor at the beginning of the week and it does
not work in Windows nor in Linux, hence my approach to Maxtor.  I think it
is faulty.  What I wanted was a device which would let me copy the contents
of one hard drive to be installed on another once I get a new computer
built.  I really did not want to go through the lengthy update procedures
yet again.  I know that anything like that does not work in Windows XP
because of their restrictive licensing.

I bet there is someone out there who will suggest a better method.  And that
is one of the things I like about Ubuntu-au membership.

Cheers,

Andre


On 03/11/06, Andrew Shugg <andrew at neep.com.au> wrote:
>
> Morgan Storey said:
> > Realistically as long as it is just an external drive it will work, you
> > could save some money by buying an external caddy (around $70 for a good
> > one) then just putting as big a drive as you want/can afford in it.
>
> Agreed.  I have a couple of home-brew removable drives and they work
> very well.  Don't be scared to get your own empty case and put a hard
> drive in it yourself - it's very easy, some cases just snap together
> with pins and rails holding the drive so there aren't even any screws.
>
> Here are some:
>
>   http://www.pccasegear.com.au/category287_1.htm
>
> I recently bought one of their Vantec 'Nextar' cases, but my workhorse
> enclosure so far has been a Laser brand one from a local PC retailer.
>
> If you have Firewire (IEEE1394) ports in your PC, consider getting a
> combo case that can do either USB2 or FireWire.  Subjective testing has
> shown I getter performance over FireWire in both Ubuntu and WinXP by
> about 3Mb/sec.
>
> If you're going to be sharing the drive between Linux and Windows you
> will likely be formatting the disk as NTFS (unless you are game to try
> the ext2 drivers for Windows).  Ubuntu has no problems reading my NTFS
> drives, however I don't know what the status is with Linux writing to
> NTFS.  It used to be a very risky thing but it might be better now -
> anyone know?
>
> Only other thing is to remember to take the disk offline before
> unplugging it so you don't mess up the filesystem.  A right-click on the
> desktop icon and selecting 'Eject' will do this nicely.
>
> Andrew.
>
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