On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Chris Brennan <xa...@xaerolimit.net> wrote: > On 8/27/2011 8:20 AM, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Today I checked this one on store, >> >> http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/external-hard-drive/portable-hard-drive >> >> the 1TB USB3.0 one, whose outside box showed the system requirements is: >> Windows .... >> Mac® OS X operating system 10.4.11 or higher; 10.5.8 or 10.6.2 (32-bit >> kernel only) >> >> My questions is that: >> >> is it compatible with mine OS: x86_64 GNU/Linux ? >> How about 64-bit kernel Mac OS X? >> >> (The lady there make me moved, >> she stopped me buying it, >> cause she can't guarantee me it will work, and it's not refundable, >> she suggested me to wait for working day, >> so she can call someone and let me know the result.) >> >> Before the hard drive I used, I did not examine much, just feel it can >> be plugged in windows, also Linux, no problems at all. >> >> >> Thanks for any advice, >> > > Lina, > > I see my advice for Seagate was effective for you, glad to see it so. In > general though, I don't buy the preassembled externals. I prefer to shop > around for an enclosure on my choosing first, one I know will work with > what ever systems I am going to use it on, then I go and find an > appropriate hard-drive.
Hi, Thanks for your suggestion before. I guess the pre-assembled externals is a bit more fit for me. I don't have much knowledge about those things and on another hand, kind of lazy. > > For example, I just bought this for my girlfriend > > http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0341014 > > And four of these > http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0355641 > > The encloser is running in raid1 (so roughly 698G), her laptop (A > Pre-Dell Alienware M17x) is running in raid0 (~1.3TB). That external > does require it's own power and the cord isn't very long. On the bright > side though, It received some abuse from me the first week we had it. > While preforming backup's of her laptop, I and my cat both knocked the > external off the desk, it slammed to the floor, I picked it up and it > was perfectly fine, granted it only fell 3 feet but I plugged it into my > Squeeze box as well as my FreeBSD box and scanned the array, no errors > (and it was still coping data when it fell!). > > Like I had said previously, I am using these very same drives elseware > (my laptop, the squeeze box as well as the freebsd box) > > /dev/md0 233G 4.2M 233G 1% /mnt (xfs) > This is her two old laptop drives (Seagate 2.5", 16MB cache, 250GB, > 7200RPM), they are running in a raid1 softraid array in Leviathan > (Squeeze). I swapped them out because the Intel fakeraid in the > Alienware died. So instead of just rebuilding a 500GB raid0 array, I > upgraded her to 2x750GB drives at ~1.3TB. > > tank 559G 25K 559G 0% /tank (zfs) > This is 2x750GB, 16MB Cache, 7200RPM drives running in a raid1 array as > my primary data storage device. They are attached to a HPT RocketRaid > 1720 Card (2xSATAII), hardware raid. The OS is FreeBSD 8.2. > > I realize this is more information then you are asking for, and I > apologize for that. I just wanted to illustarte how well these drives Thanks. > function and to show you that the external I pointed out will work in > Squeeze at the very least. If you want, I can grab her external after > Hurricane Irene is done leaving her mark on NYC and get you dmesg logs > from Squeeze and my laptop, running testing. Thanks, just it seems will trouble you lots. I don't know how to understand those dmesg logs, so please just forget about it. Thanks again, and have a nice weekend, > > > > -- >> Chris Brennan >> -- >> A: Yes. >> >Q: Are you sure? >> >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >> >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? >> http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ >> GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAG9cJm=+_ug4saez8rcfaougogbfpm5-1d9cjt-md7pcwox...@mail.gmail.com
