[SOLVED] do external HDDs work with linux?

[dEnDrOn]

I'm planning to buy one of these HDDs...

1) do they work with linux without compromising with any feature?
2) I've got USB 2.0 port on my laptop...will USB 3.0 supporting HDDs function well?

[george_toolan]

Sure they work with Linux ;-)

What "features" do you mean exactly?

USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with USB 2.0, so it should work flawlessly but not faster than about 30 MiB/sec.

[flyingfsck]

I boot Fedora off an external USB3 HDD. Hacking away on it right now...

[mtk]

just a warning - if you use KDE and the 'device notifier' to try to automatically mount external (e.g. USB) volumes at boot time or when they are plugged in, you will be upset to learn that fixing this feature is continually deprecated in favor of adding new, impossibly slow full-text indexing or social media features.

/mark

[dEnDrOn]

Originally Posted by mtk

just a warning - if you use KDE and the 'device notifier' to try to automatically mount external (e.g. USB) volumes at boot time or when they are plugged in, you will be upset to learn that fixing this feature is continually deprecated in favor of adding new, impossibly slow full-text indexing or social media features.

/mark

I'm using gnome only...is there any gnome specific issue that i must keep in mind?

[mtk]

you've got me. i'm a KDE user in the process of fleeing to XFCE (and sanity). /mark