[nflug] nice, real nice

[Robert Wolfe [Admin]]

Erek Dyskant wrote:
> The sad part is that Seagate won't lose a lot of business over this, as
> they're marketing these towards a Best Buy crowd where Linux penetration
> is minimal.  However, it presents a real annoyance to Linux users and
> perpetrates the view that Linux is hard to make work with hardware.
>
> As long as we're enumerating our drive choices, I've had good luck with
> the Fantom brand external drives.  They're solid hardware that just
> works, and in my experience (of course, no guarantees for anyone else),
> they can take a light beating.
>
> --Erek
>   

Getting ready for today's meeting at 1pm and going through my email and 
came across this one :)

I agree.  However, my choice of late here has been just to buy Coolmax 
mobile storage cases and put regular SATA drives in them.  Those work 
just as well if not better IMO.