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External Harddrive Cases and Such

by sageman＠WPI.EDU

> From: "John Stoffel" <stoffel(a)lucent.com> > Subject: [Wlug] Firewire/USB2.0 case recommendations? > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Message-ID: <16609.39769.539479.557377(a)gargle.gargle.HOWL> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > Folks, > > Anyone know of a good FireWire and/or USB 2.0 external Hard Drive > case? It's got to have a builtin powersupply and be durable. Any > suggestions appreciated. > > John On a different, although related note, was wondering if anyone has had success with a Maxtor OneTouch brand external harddrive. I've read in howtos and in the kernel that you need to enable SCSI to access external USB 2.0/Firewire harddrives, and I assume that the Maxtor OneTouch will go off without a hitch. Right now you can get a 300 GB one off newegg for roughly $270, which is only about $20 more than the internal one. I was thinking of setting up a cron job to backup certain files to the external harddrive. Right now I have a RAID 5 system set up but think this is overkill; additionally, an external harddrive makes sharing between computers that aren't on a network much easier and is mobile to go with my laptop (setting up my laptop to play oggs through my car stereo is something I plan on doing, and instead of backing up my music collection on the laptop I could simply do it on the external harddrive and get a power inteverter to power it via the cigarette lighter plug). Additionally, I can just do striping over my harddrives instead of RAID 5'ing them and increase the preformance (why not? hehe). I was thinking about doing the external harddrive case deal but for backup at least this doesn't seem like a good alternative, since the external harddrive is only $20 more and the external harddrive case is much more than that. In less you plan on buying four or more harddrives to swap into the case, its not really cost effective. As for the long run, an external harddrive case isn't viable anywho, since a couple years from now its going to be nothing compared to the new ones, plus external harddrive technology will advance and speed up tremendously; look at Firewire 800 right now, already out, and one sees that 'investing' in an external harddrive case just doesn't pay out. Just my $.02.

July 1, 2004

connections

by doug waud

Hi Just a thought/comment (couldn't resist!) From: Keller, Tim <Tim.Keller(a)stratus.com> if((get_cur_temp("Fahrenheit") >= 70) && (osha_violation("electric_fence") == OFF)) { pool.occupants.add(Tim); } I gather, Tim, that you are not enamored of firewire! :-) doug

July 1, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Firewire/USB2.0 case recommendations?

by John Stoffel

John> Anyone know of a good FireWire and/or USB 2.0 external Hard John> Drive case? It's got to have a builtin powersupply and be John> durable. Any suggestions appreciated. Well, I didn't get any replies, but I went and looked around a bit and found a "Speed Metal Box" at a local store, but which I didn't like because it required a wall wart to use. Plus, it didn' have a builtin fan, it relied entirely on convection only. So I ended up ordering (for a cheaper price!) an ME-320 5.25" enclosure with builtin power supply and USB 2.0 and firewire interfaces. I'll let people know how it works once it comes in. It will be holding a 120gb disk for backups and data transfer uses. I'll let people know how it works out. John

July 1, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Website updated...upcoming activity

by doug waud

> -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@comcast.net] > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 10:19 PM > To: Worcester Linux Users Group > Subject: [Wlug] Website updated...upcoming activity > > Also, an early reminder about the annual WLUG BBQ , which will be held in > Shrewsbury, MA USA at Doug Waud's house on Wednesday, July 21st at 6:00 PM > (yes, that's 6:00 PM and its not a misprint (is it Doug??)). I don't think so. The reasoning was to time it so nobody had to wait around twiddling thumbs for a 7:00 start date. doug

July 1, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Firewire/USB2.0 case recommendations?

by Doug Geiger

Laptop hard drive or full-sized? The lab I work in has a couple of these portable Firewire/USB 2.0 enclosures: http://www.cooldrives.com/25firmobexen.html It needs external power (there's a picture of the adapter on the page) only for plugging into the mini-Firewire connections (i.e. most laptop firewire connections), but works fine with a full-sized firewire, or USB without external power. It's just large enough for a laptop drive, so very portable (we fit the whole kit including all the extra connectors into one of those 25-CD nylon cases). -- Doug Geiger runexe(a)ece.wpi.edu runexe(a)ieee.org doug.geiger(a)gmail.com dgeiger(a)alum.wpi.edu Surface Metrology Lab Manager -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of John Stoffel Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 12:40 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] Firewire/USB2.0 case recommendations? Folks, Anyone know of a good FireWire and/or USB 2.0 external Hard Drive case? It's got to have a builtin powersupply and be durable. Any suggestions appreciated. John _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

June 29, 2004

Firewire/USB2.0 case recommendations?

by John Stoffel

Folks, Anyone know of a good FireWire and/or USB 2.0 external Hard Drive case? It's got to have a builtin powersupply and be durable. Any suggestions appreciated. John

June 29, 2004

Fwd: [Wlug] GNHLUG quarterly meeting to be held at USENIX Technical Conference

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Everybody, This is a reminder about the LUG meeting to which we've all been invited that will be held in Boston this coming Thursday. I plan to be there and I hope to see many of you also. Later, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA4YsnHl0iXDssISsRAimHAJ4vnXyg9uvWiHoveiEok0diMAEuPgCaAuZH vBRMRNJYsCVG2y33rkDg2hM= =ILaC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

June 29, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Website updated...upcoming activity

by Keller, Tim

if((get_cur_temp("Fahrenheit") >= 70) && (osha_violation("electric_fence") == OFF)) { pool.occupants.add(Tim); } -----Original Message----- From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 10:19 PM To: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: [Wlug] Website updated...upcoming activity -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody, I've finally gotten around to updating the WLUG website - my apologies for the delay. o slides from June talk are available (bootsplash and gfxboot) o slides from John Rulnick's talk about Bay Path College linux courses Also, an early reminder about the annual WLUG BBQ , which will be held in Shrewsbury, MA USA at Doug Waud's house on Wednesday, July 21st at 6:00 PM (yes, that's 6:00 PM and its not a misprint (is it Doug??)). We will not have a meeting at WPI on this date - we'll all be at Doug's house. Oh, BTW, in years past, Doug has allowed us to use the pool, but for some reason, nobody has ever taken the plunge! This year, we need to change that. :-) No, I don't mean that Doug won't allow us to use the pool, but that we should actually *avail ourselves* of the opportunity. If you have wearable computing, be sure its waterproof. Have a great July 4th weekend ! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA4NGQHl0iXDssISsRAnYpAJ9ukXIUrkLypzdb4MEpzf/KGDHtnACfWCOr djcvaFmFf0/yaElqz6AmVx8= =KurN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

June 29, 2004

Website updated...upcoming activity

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody, I've finally gotten around to updating the WLUG website - my apologies for the delay. o slides from June talk are available (bootsplash and gfxboot) o slides from John Rulnick's talk about Bay Path College linux courses Also, an early reminder about the annual WLUG BBQ , which will be held in Shrewsbury, MA USA at Doug Waud's house on Wednesday, July 21st at 6:00 PM (yes, that's 6:00 PM and its not a misprint (is it Doug??)). We will not have a meeting at WPI on this date - we'll all be at Doug's house. Oh, BTW, in years past, Doug has allowed us to use the pool, but for some reason, nobody has ever taken the plunge! This year, we need to change that. :-) No, I don't mean that Doug won't allow us to use the pool, but that we should actually *avail ourselves* of the opportunity. If you have wearable computing, be sure its waterproof. Have a great July 4th weekend ! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA4NGQHl0iXDssISsRAnYpAJ9ukXIUrkLypzdb4MEpzf/KGDHtnACfWCOr djcvaFmFf0/yaElqz6AmVx8= =KurN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

June 29, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Re: GMAIL

by Marc Hughes

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 11:52:50 -0400, Bob George <mailings02(a)ttlexceeded.com> wrote: > > Marc Hughes wrote: > > >I got 5 invites to gmail if anyone wants them. > > > > > Nothing personal intended, but why on earth would "the linux crowd" WANT > such a thing? I've been having an ongoing discussion with some of the > Phoenix LUG members. Everybody seems to be falling over themselves to > store some of their most personal information on SOMEBODY ELSE'S > servers. True, Google promises that they won't do anything bad with the > info. But even after reading the ToS, I'm creeped out by the idea. One > of the reasons I find linux appealing in the first place is that it give > me the capability to be (largely) idependent of others, and free from > their machinations. I hated being part of @Home (few years back) knowing > they were more focused on the marketing aspect rather than just > providing me the bandwidth I craved. > > Anyhow, now that drives are cheap, and we can run and fully control our > own servers, what's the APPEAL of gmail? > I don't see gmail as conflicting with Linux ideals. Linux is about choice. I feel having my email on someone elses machine is worth the benefits it gives me. Some people may hold their email conversations muce more dearly than I. Those people could make the choice to do things a bit more difficultly and register a domain and run their own mail server. -Marc

June 28, 2004