Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

[Tom Buskey]

On 11/7/06, Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:
> I've got a client who would like to image his half-dozen workstations
> and store the images off-site as part of a disaster recovery plan.
>
> We're planning on using Knoppix and partimage to snapshot the machines,



> I see the local big boxes have regular promotions for Western
> Digitals, Seagates, Maxtors and SimpleTechs.  Any recommendations
> pro- or con- or are these pretty much commodity items?

I've had luck with a generic carrier.  I have one for laptop disk,
CD/DVD and desktop disk.  The last 2 are same brand.  All 3 were
cheap.

They have pretty much just worked, just like a thumb drive or card
reader.  The issue was how they showed up on Fedora 4/5 or Ubuntu
5.10?/6.06.  (/dev/sd? /media/??)

You're either going to want to off site the whole thing or just the
disk.  You can put the disk back in its shipping container but you'll
want a USB carrier that's easy to take apart/put together.  Get 2 so
you have a spare, they're cheap.