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