[ale] Need a big external drive quick. Suggestions?

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Thu Jun 1 18:28:40 EDT 2006


I'm not too concerned about the enclosure issue.  To go past 128 GiB
you need LBA-48 support.  I don't think there is another boundary
until you get to 1 TB, then 2 TB.  Anyway I've tried several USB-2
enclosures and they have all had LBA-48 support.

The bigger issue is that I just don't think a 750 GB drive will give
me 700 GB of useable filesystem space.  I guess I need to look at one
of my XFS partitions a little closer.

As far as using a small server, I want to stay away from that for
various reasons.

Greg

On 6/1/06, Benjie <benjie.godfrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Before you drop a 750 GB drive in an external enclosure, I would
> verify that its chipset can support a drive that big. That being said,
>  I have used a small ( in size) Linux server running software raid for
> the same purpose.  Its not the best in size ( or economy,)  but it
> should be a reliable solution given your constraints.
>
> Benjie
>
> On 6/1/06, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I need to copy off about 700 GB of data from a server Saturday night
> > (overnight, hope its done by Sunday morning).
> >
> > I thought about buying one of the new Seagate 750 GB drives and
> > putting it in a USB 2 enclusere, but I'm afraid that with filesystem
> > overhead etc. it won't be big enough.
> >
> > My next thought was a Lacie 1 TB external unit but some of the reviews
> > at Amazon are not so good.
> >
> > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/B0001R041M/ref=cm_cr_dp_pt/104-6988910-3467137?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=172282&s=electronics
> >
> > Anybody have any suggestions?  Perfect would be something I could pick
> > up a Fry's etc.
> >
> > Alternatively I should be able to order something overnight out of
> > California still tonight.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Greg
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