I want to buy a USB hard drive for my Ubuntu system and I am wondering
about compatibility. Earlier I bought a Transcend usb drive and it wasn't
supported. How does it work out these days? Are most drives supported?
Thanks for any answers.

Regards,

Wens

Wenslauw wrote:
> I want to buy a USB hard drive for my Ubuntu system and I am wondering
> about compatibility. Earlier I bought a Transcend usb drive and it wasn't
> supported. How does it work out these days? Are most drives supported?
> Thanks for any answers.

Most are supported. Word to wise, if it has some awesome, special,
weirdo, crypto, accelerato, win-feature... try to avoid those.

In other words, if it says JUST USB drive on the box.. you're probably
safe.

For the record, I have an older Western Digital.. and it works fine.
(doesn't mean that the new ones are alright though...)

Wenslauw wrote:
> I want to buy a USB hard drive for my Ubuntu system and I am wondering
> about compatibility. Earlier I bought a Transcend usb drive and it wasn't
> supported. How does it work out these days? Are most drives supported?
> Thanks for any answers.

I have installed three fixed USB drives and moved three drives through a case
with connectors and the USB to IDE converter. Of the first three I bought them
all by best price at the time and they are all different. Of the latter three
they were ones I had laying around unused for at least a year. Two had been used
on linux systems and one had never been formatted.

I had no problem with any of them.

The nearest thing to a problem I am having is that with three connected they
always rebooted in the same order so fstab always put them in the right mount
points. Now with four online, the same two are switching mount points with each
other on every reboot.

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On Tue, 08 May 2007 10:23:06 +0000, Wenslauw wrote:

> I want to buy a USB hard drive for my Ubuntu system and I am wondering
> about compatibility. Earlier I bought a Transcend usb drive and it wasn't
> supported. How does it work out these days? Are most drives supported?
> Thanks for any answers.
>
> Regards,
>
> Wens

You can check whether the device in which you are interested is supported
here:

http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showd...60&w=t&s=v&d=a

For example, the Transcend TS0MHDENC appears to work fine.

http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=2190

On Wed, 09 May 2007 08:55:17 +0000, Robin T Cox wrote:

> On Tue, 08 May 2007 10:23:06 +0000, Wenslauw wrote:
>
>> I want to buy a USB hard drive for my Ubuntu system and I am wondering
>> about compatibility. Earlier I bought a Transcend usb drive and it wasn't
>> supported. How does it work out these days? Are most drives supported?
>> Thanks for any answers.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Wens
>
> You can check whether the device in which you are interested is supported
> here:
>
> http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showd...60&w=t&s=v&d=a
>
> For example, the Transcend TS0MHDENC appears to work fine.
>
> http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=2190

Thanks for the info, guys. I bought a Freecom and it's performing
beautifully. Hm, I'll try that old Transcend again, maybe it'll work
without trouble now... I got a lot of I/O errors with it on older Linux
distributions.

Wens

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Wenslauw wrote:
> I want to buy a USB hard drive for my Ubuntu system and I am wondering
> about compatibility. Earlier I bought a Transcend usb drive and it wasn't
> supported. How does it work out these days? Are most drives supported?
> Thanks for any answers.
>
> Regards,
>
> Wens
Just bought a new Seagate 500Gb drive with 16Mb Cache, and 5year
warranty, for $139.99 delivered. Stuck it into one of my
USB/Firewire400 cases, and formatted it to EXT3. 465 GB of usable
storage. Have two others and am dumping them over. Also can dump my
internal 120Gb drive.

Hey, works fine in PCLinuxOS and Simply Mepis 6.5.