External hard drive, was: Re: [Discuss] Meeting tonight

[Robert Smits]

On June 19, 2007 02:20:09 pm Kari Kostamo wrote:
> Hi Ole
>
> I had Suzanne cost out a USB drive that would work under linux.
>
> She found a number but I would not recommend them because they were
> being manufactured by unknowns.
>
> The closest I could get to your 200 GB request was:
>
> Western Digital 250 GB
> USB 2.0
> 8 MB Cache
>
> Price $165.00 plus 10.00 shipping (there are 6 currently in Vancouver)
> and tax.
>
> Kari
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ole Madsen [mailto:philimorept at yahoo.com]
> Sent: June 19, 2007 11:44 AM
> To: Nanaimo Linux User Group discussion list
> Subject: External hard drive, was: Re: [Discuss] Meeting tonight
>
> Hi Kari,
> Thanks for the session last night.  It was interesting.
>
> As I mentioned, I am looking for an external hard drive, something in
> the order of 200 GB, USB interface, external AC power supply, and of
> course something where there are no Linux issues.
>
> At your convenience, could you please get me price & dely on such an
> item?
>
> Best Regards
> Ole Madsen
> Ladysmith
>
> --- Kari Kostamo <Kari.Kostamo at kckbiz.com> wrote:
> > Good day everyone.
> >
> > Just a quick reminder that there is a meeting tonight.
> >
> > I have a couple different things that I have been looking at in the
> > last few weeks so I thought I would go over creating a Linux Terminal
> > Server.
> >
> > If anyone is familiar  with windows terminal servers, you would use
> > your remote desktop connection to connect to the terminal server and
> > run the software directly on the server.  I was wondering if this was
> > possible with Windows and a Linux terminal with very little setup on
> > both sides.

I had to do this last fall. I purchased a USB enclosure from NCIX and the 
added a 320 GB drive to it for another $109. It was a Seagate Barracuda 7200 
rpm drive, and a VanTec enclosure. The enclosure was about 60 bucks.

Both gave me no Linux issues. I even reformatted the drive as ext3.




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