Jorge Almeida wrote:
I'm thinking of purchasing a "Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk
Box 3.5 (CHD3U)", together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups.
Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I
worry about drivers?
(Sorry for the OT'ness, but it _is_ to be used with gentoo :))
This is how I make my backups currently, and it works perfectly.
One thing: you must be very careful of the power supply and requirements
of the HD. I have several models of external chassis that provide 12V
1.7A of power, and this is insufficient for modern (and _large_) disks,
and will result in disk read and write errors.
So I highly recommend a chassis that uses a power supply that provides
separate 12V and 5V inputs. Judging from the pictures of the CHD3U I
found, it seems to support this, so it should be a good choice.
-Richard
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