external storage for linux

[Bart Silverstrim]

David Vincent wrote:

> thanks bart.  that's pretty similar to what i'm doing right now.  i keep 
> multiple copies of my documents. media, and /home across a few machines 
> and external drives in case of a single drive failure.  if there is a 
> fire i can grab just the external drives and save my critical stuff.
> 
> do the mybook drives spin down or go into any power-saving mode?  i'll 
> confess i really really like western digital as a brand, they have 
> always been good to me.

They do seem to go to a sleep mode after a period of inactivity.  I say 
that only because sometimes when I do the "./sync", the prompt seems to 
hesitate a few seconds before I see activity ramp up, then it seems 
fine.  The delay isn't long, though.  I notice it only because I'm 
typing the command right at the prompt and focusing on it.

They don't disappear from the desktop of my Linux system, if that's what 
you mean.  There is just an initial pause when using it for the first 
time after awhile of nothing.

I've had no problem with them, personally, although I've heard rumor of 
some large terabyte-class sharing device they recently released that 
won't let you save certain files depending on file extension...?  May 
have to google that.