[nflug] nice, real nice

[Erek Dyskant]

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


On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 09:47 -0400, Brad Bartram wrote:
> I buy a lot of external drives on a monthly basis and I've never found
> too many good things about the FreeAgent series of drives anyway.  Not
> a big loss.  FWIW, I tend to buy mostly WD MyBook series drives or
> Maxtor externals.  Haven't had any problems with either on any of the
> operating systems I've used them on (Windows, Linux, OS X).
> 
> brad