Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB3 external storage HD's

On 01/19/2018 02:30 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:45:41 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 18/01/18 20:33, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
>>> Do those External Storage work with Linux (USB3)?
>>> I don't want to install any ventor-software, I just want one that plugs
>>> and play.
>>>
>>> Any recommendations?
>>
>> My USB 3 stick works fine, at its full advertised speed (190MB/s read,
>> 100MB/s write.) So an HD should work fine though. There's no third-party
>> drivers needed.
>
> I've been using two bog-standard USB-3 Seagate expansion drives for a couple
> of years. They're for whole-system backups of my Gentoo boxes, so they
> aren't exactly heavily stressed. I haven't measured their speeds, but
> they're much faster than the USB-2 drives I had before them.

Maybe SSD would perform better, but they are not cheap.