I am getting my EeePC ready to go to Europe and
I found a little $90 500 gig USB hard drive to take
with me. The EeePC has a solid state 40 gig drive
which is great for traveling and 7 hour battery life
but too hard to load and not quite large enough.

I started to load everything on to USB
sticks but I only had three 32 gig sticks and that
was not enough. Another 32 gig stick was $40 bucks
in Fry's and sticks are real slow. Much slower
than USB hard drives.

All the stuff from the Newsletter for the
last 11 years fit on that 500 gig drive with plenty
of room to spare. It is an Hitachi
Simple Drive SDMini. I have had troubles in the past
getting USB hard drives to work on Linux. First thing
I did was plug it into the EeePC running Linux
and it worked. Then I plugged it into my main
computer running a different version of Linux
and that worked too. No software to install.
Nada! It just looks like a big hard drive to both
computers. I highly recommend it.

Paul Lamar


Cool..  The neat trick I learned when I recently upgraded laptop hard
drives was I found a USB to PATA cable.  Allowed me to directly plug
the old laptop drive into the USB port without any additional cabling.
Made copying off the old email and pics a snap.  From ebay for $7 +
shipping ($5).


Matt