[LUNI] HD Enclosure

[jkaplenk at aol.com]

Some of the newer enclosures do USB, Firewire and e-SATA. The e-SAtA will give better performance than the USB. You?may need to get an e-SATA card if it is not on your system. A lot of newer systems have it built in. You just need to verify that the e-SATA card will work with your operating system.

Joe Kaplenk


-----Original Message-----
From: Trev Peterson <trev at advanced-reality.com>
To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion <luni at luni.org>
Sent: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 9:26 am
Subject: Re: [LUNI] HD Enclosure



I think these pretty much just work.  They all get presented as a usb
disk to the system.  All the ones I've had or come across have worked
without problems.

    Trev

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 06:16 -0600, RCRamsdell at gldd.com wrote:
> My main computer died the other day.  I think (hope) that it was the
> power supply.  By coincidence I had just purchased a replacement, it
> being long in the tooth.  New computer will have Ubuntu 7.02 installed.
> 
> In any case, I had a 160 GB HD in the computer that I had formatted as a
> data partition (EFS3, I think).  It held my nightly backups, pictures
> and music.  Rather than tear apart the new computer I'm thinking of
> getting an external disk enclocure, SATA to USB.  Does anyone have any
> advice?  In particular, what is a good, reasonably priced brand that may
> be available at Frys or Microcenter.  Any brands to stay away from?  Is
> this something that Just Works, or are there likely to be compatability
> problems?
> 
> Robert C. Ramsdell III
> Production Engineering Manager
> Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company
> 2122 York Road
> Oakbrook, IL 60523
> rcramsdell at gldd.com
> Phone: 630-574-3463
> Mobile: 630-805-1776
> Fax: 630-574-2909
>  
> 
-- 
Trev Peterson
Advanced Reality
Email: trev at advanced-reality.com
Phone: +1 847 406 9018


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