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jagdpanther l33t
Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 727
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 11:03 pm Post subject: What External USB3 Hard Drive? |
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I am looking for a 2TB external USB3 hard drive for my Gentoo system. (Mostly for backups.)
I was going to buy a Seagate STBV2000100 but read some reviews that state the Seagate has issues with non-windows OSes like Linux and Mac.
Any recommendations for a USB3 2TB (or 3TB) external hard drive? |
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Jaglover Watchman
Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 8291 Location: Saint Amant, Acadiana
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creaker l33t
Joined: 14 Jul 2012 Posts: 651
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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I have usb3.0 Seagate. I noticed only one issue: impossibility to boot system from usb-drive if usb-drive connected to usb3 port. If usb-drive connected to usb2.0, system from usb-drive booting fine (I have a bunch of systems installed on my usb drive).
If drive used only for saving and reading data - all works fine.
At usb2 port transfer rate is 35MB/sec, at usb3.0 port 75MB/sec
I'm not complaining about my Seagate drive. |
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jagdpanther l33t
Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 727
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 1:58 am Post subject: |
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Thanks I'll look at WD. I originally was looking at Seagate USB drives because I have had very good luck (ie. no disk hardware failures) with the commercial internal SATA Seagates with 5-year warantee. |
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 13047 Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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I have 2 WD for my backups.
1. Western Digital Black serie 1 TB inside a NexstarCX case USB 3.
2. Western Digital Passport 1 TB USB 3.
Never had a crash and it's lightning fast at least on my box. |
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Jaglover Watchman
Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 8291 Location: Saint Amant, Acadiana
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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Once a WD failed on me and I had to request RMA, it was the easiest RMA I ever had. I just had to go to their website and type in the serial. No receipt was needed. OTOH I hear Seagate makes it real hard to have the drive replaced. _________________ My Gentoo installation notes.
Please learn how to denote units correctly! |
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Anon-E-moose Watchman
Joined: 23 May 2008 Posts: 6095 Location: Dallas area
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 9:58 am Post subject: |
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I don't like seagate. I had one of their 500 gig drives and it was fine for a couple of years, but it went bad.
It was under warranty, but the drive that they sent to replace it was a POS "rebuilt" one. I've had nothing but trouble from it.
It has been so much trouble that I just bought a WD to replace it and put the seagate on the shelf.
YMMV _________________ PRIME x570-pro, 3700x, 6.1 zen kernel
gcc 13, profile 17.0 (custom bare multilib), openrc, wayland |
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