I am talking real hard drives.USB version are up to 500 Gig

  Paul Lamar

  I'm using a WD 1TB SATA drive in an Antec MX-1 external case.  The
  case has
  a cooling fan with under/over airflow and supports drives up to
  1.5TB.  It
  has USB 2.0 and eSata connections.  I'm able to move files between
  Vista, XP
  Pro, and Debian boxes.

  Just about everyone has 1TB USB external drives
  http://www.nextag.com/1tb-external-hard-drive/compare-html - what
 doesn't
  work?

  Andy Hecker

  I'll look into that one Andy. Thanks

  Paul Lamar

 I was going to make the same recommendation, Paul, but it looks like
 Andy beat me to it!  So, I'll just add my two cents.

 I also have a Western Digital 1 terabyte external hard drive. It runs
 from the USB port.  I use it for daily full system backups (after the
 initial backup, daily ones only take about 20-30 minutes to update only
 the files that have changed) and storage of all my media files (videos,
 photos, converted 8mm films, slides, etc.) and still have 700+GB free!

 This is the one I have: http://tinyurl.com/ahod64

 Harley

 Does it work with Linux?

 Paul Lamar

Not sure, Paul...but best to check with someone who has already
installed one, or from WD's website.  I found this in a quick search
there:

Western Digital technical support provides jumper configuration and
physical installation support for hard drives used in systems running
the Linux/Unix operating systems.

So maybe it does.

Harley

Sounds promising. What Model number was that?

Paul Lamar



It's the model on the link above...

Having a problem typing with my hands right now...they're a bit
numb...been using a very large orbital sander on my right wing for the
last two hours! Vibrated my hands right into uselessness!

Anyhoo...Just found this in the reviews for that drive on Amazon,  I
think that answers the question:

"In the time i've been using the WD Elements external HD (almost one
month) it hasn't given me any trouble. It is pretty silent and
relatively fast when I am browsing my considerable music and movies
collection.
I've been using it as it came, with a FAT32 filesystem, together with my
Ubuntu Linux laptop. I don't have an eSATA port so I went with this
drive that has a single USB 2.0 connection"

H.


Thanks Harley. Maybe it is Fedora 8 problem.

Paul Lamar