[NTLUG:Discuss] External Hard Drive Recommendation

[Steve Baker]

Jeff Demel wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have Red Hat 9 at home and Windows 2000 Pro at work, and want to get an
> external hard drive to carry data back and forth.
> 
> I'm hoping that just about any USB 2.0 compatible external drive will work
> fine, but would like to hear any recommendations or warnings y'all might
> have.

Depending on how much storage space you need, you might want to go with
one of those solid state memory sticks.  I have a 512Mb Cig at r stick - and
it works very nicely with modern Linux'en.  SuSE and GenToo (which are the
two distro's I use) can be set up to auto-mount them.  Then it's just like
any other disk drive.  It's about the size of a Magic Marker and since it
has no moving parts, I feel happier about having it bounce around in my pocket
than I would an actual disk drive.  It cost $48 in Fry's and with about the
same capacity of a CD-ROM, it's pretty useful.

Of course if you need more space than that - then a USB disk drive is the
right answer.

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