Inexpensive hardware at Staples

[Dan Jenkins]

Bill Ricker wrote:
>> 250 Gb Western Digital External Drive (USB2): $89
> 
> Is that Linux friendly?
> The "one touch backup" software advertised on the package made me
> question if it might require proprietary drivers.  If I can
> plug-and-go on a modern Linux w/ USB mass storage support, this would
> be great.

The last one I used was a standard drive. The backup software I ignored.
I hooked them up to a Linux-based NAS and reformatted them with ext3
without a problem.

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