Good External Storage Drive

[Heibges]

I'm looking for a good quality external storage drive?

[Jimbuna]

I curently use a collection of external USB connectable caddies, but I'll soon be purchasing this: :up:

http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=2007&prepg=1

[tycho102]

I'm looking for a good quality external storage drive?
Good quality is pretty vague.

Do you want hardware raid capability with 2 drives or 5 drives? Do you just want an active cooling fan? Do you want good passive cooling through the use of aluminium housing and thermal tape? Do you want the higher speed of firewire 400 or 800? Are you just looking for a USB 2.0 enclosure that gets the extra 3MB/s that good controllers can give? Are you looking for one with a standard 1-pin 12v power output that is easy to replace, rather than the 4 pin supplies that are difficult to replace? Does it need to accept either iSATA or IDE drives, or just one type? Does it need to be a 5.25" enclosure that can take either hard drives or internal dvd drives?

Define "good quality". 5-drive raid enclosures with an eSATA port and USB 2 can run $250, while a cheap USB 2 can go for $15.

[stabiz]

I have this one:

http://i.pricerunner.com/prod/14_1_6_1_585889s/Western_Digital_My_Book_Essential_Edition_400GB_US B2_0_7200rpm.jpeg

Its a Western Digital MyBook 250GB USB2, and I like it alot. Its almost a year old now, and no hickups.

[NefariousKoel]

I'd recommend buying a sturdy hard drive of your choice and also an external hard drive enclosure for it. Simple to set up if you have a kinda smallish phillips screw driver.

[Heibges]

I went and got a Simpletech Portofina 80GB External USB Hard Drive.

I got it onsale for $80.

Worked like a charm.

[Boris]

I too have been looking at external storage solutions.

I already have two external drives running in a couple of cheap and nasty enclosures I got from ebay.
Is there any kind of storage solution for multiple drives that aren't ridiculously expensive?

[SUBMAN1]

That is a pretty broad statement. I've got Gentoo Linux loaded on this fully functional Power PC (266 Mhz, 128 MB RAM). It is a fully functional PC in a tiny box, with a 500 GB Seagate inside of course! :D

-S

http://www.revogear.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=KURO-BOX%2FHG-WR&Show=TechSpecs

PS. This box is not for the faint of heart. If you plan to change OS's, you will need a great deal of time getting this thing going - plan on a couple days of screwing around to get it right.

PPS. Some services I am running right now:

PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:01 init
2 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
3 ? 00:00:00 events/0
4 ? 00:00:00 khelper
5 ? 00:00:00 kthread
21 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
24 ? 00:00:00 khubd
26 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
58 ? 00:00:03 pdflush
59 ? 00:00:14 pdflush
60 ? 00:00:05 kswapd0
61 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
678 ? 00:00:00 mtdblockd
727 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
799 ? 00:00:01 udevd
4704 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
4709 ? 00:00:02 kjournald
4975 ? 00:00:00 kuroevtd
5566 ? 00:00:00 fcron
6366 ? 00:00:00 proftpd
6464 ? 00:00:00 smbd
6466 ? 00:00:00 nmbd
6478 ? 00:00:00 smbd
6572 ? 00:00:00 sshd
6673 ? 00:00:00 syslog-ng
6681 ttyS0 00:00:00 agetty
14572 ? 00:00:00 twonkymedia
14573 ? 00:00:34 twonkymediaserv
14645 ? 00:00:00 file-scanner <defunct>
14646 ? 00:00:00 shoutcast-impor <defunct>
14655 ? 00:00:00 sshd
14661 ? 00:00:01 sshd
14662 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
14704 pts/1 00:00:00 ps

PPPS. As you can see, I'm a storage hog:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 9851308 1925348 7425540 21% /
udev 63580 100 63480 1% /dev
/dev/hda3 3850320 306132 3348600 9% /var
/dev/hda4 466512972 403997148 38818344 92% /datafiles
none 63580 0 63580 0% /dev/shm