From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 16:03:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52C4ACE1.4080009@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761q3bbl1.fsf@nyu.edu>
On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:
> I was considering what seagate calls an "expansion hard drive". They
> are USB 3, but I will be using only USB 2. The desktop is gentoo-only
> and I don't need any backup software from seagate.
>
> The models are STBVx000100 for x=1,2,3,4 TB.
>
> I understand the price capacity trade-off, but wonder if anyone has any
> experience with these drives.
>
>
Hi Allan,
I am currently using 11 of these drives (1TB model; STBV1000100)
connected via USB doing daily/weekly backups of infrastructure at work.
They're specifically used on mostly Windows servers via WSB.
They're written to quite often and have been on 24x7 since last January.
I did have a problem with one drive a month in but it was replaced and
have had no issues since.
Keep in mind these have no on/off switch and are literally an expansiond
drive, meant to be on all the time.
I've performed test restores to a VM and no issues. Performance is OK
even on USB2.
I have no complaints on these particular models (other than the lack of
a power switch), although I really should have purchased the 2TB models.
Oh well.
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-02 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-01 22:07 [gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk gottlieb
2014-01-01 22:31 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2014-01-01 23:28 ` gottlieb
2014-01-01 23:47 ` Dale
2014-01-01 23:59 ` gottlieb
2014-01-03 1:15 ` walt
2014-01-03 14:37 ` gottlieb
2014-01-02 0:03 ` Daniel Frey [this message]
2014-01-02 2:05 ` [gentoo-user] " gottlieb
2014-01-02 8:13 ` Helmut Jarausch
2014-01-02 16:29 ` gottlieb
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