I need some advice on BIG external storage units

[Peter Frenning [OZ1PIF]]

Tom Rausner skrev:
> fre, 09 05 2008 kl. 14:08 -0700, skrev Steve Lamb:
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>>     I'd say stay away from USB or, at best, be very cautious of it.  I got
>> an external USB drive, only 120Gb, and figured it would be a nice place
>> to store all of my low-turnover, high-space files (OGG/FLAC of my CDs
>> for example).  Hooked it up to my Debian box, got it formatted for ext3
>> and then found out that if it is not in constant use it spins down. 
>> Once spun down it would not reactivate prior to Linux timing out on the
>> operation.  Pretty worthless if I can only read/write to it within
>> minutes of plugging it in.
>>     
>
> Ok...!? Didn't know that fact..
>
> Tom.
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>
>   
Not a problem with mine....
BTW: I normally format them NTFS, that generally works with every system 
I've thrown them at, while ext3 or other *nix/*nux filesystems aren't 
recognized by Windoze...

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