[ale] recommendations on external USB drive for Linux, pls

[Robert L. Harris]

  I got a $15 3.5" IDE drive container and put a 160Gig drive in it.
For the last 3 months it has been connected to one of my desktops sharing
out it's file systems via nfs and samba (backups to my xbox).  It's had 0
problems and works very well.

  At current prices you could do this for a pair of 250's and either raid
them or rotate backups from one to the other.


Thus spake Jerry Yu (jjj863 at gmail.com):

>    I need to stage backups at a co-lo. A daily full set totals 15G or so.
>    Tape lib/magazine option is out for now, so an external USB drive sounds
>    good. Anyone has recommendations based on experience?
>      * $100 to $200  for for a known reliable external USB drive of decent
>        size (250G or greater).
>      * it needs to stay on 24x7x365 w/o overheating or burning into ashes
>      * plug&play compatible with Linux (CentOS 4/i386) without tweaking usb
>        or pci spec or db files here and there.
>      * rack-friendly, but not required to be rack mountable.
>      * name brand or your choice of  drive make/model & external enclosure
>      * option to format the drive to my fs of choice (ext2/ext3/fat32), w/o
>        voiding warranty

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