Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 12:39:12 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: Velcro Leaf <velcroleaf@rocketmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: consistent, functional 1TB usb drive? Message-ID: <20140304123912.08829e26@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <1393930600.85283.YahooMailBasic@web164504.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1393929992.29422.YahooMailBasic@web164502.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1393930600.85283.YahooMailBasic@web164504.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 02:56:40 -0800 (PST) Velcro Leaf <velcroleaf@rocketmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 3/4/14, Velcro Leaf <velcroleaf@rocketmail.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:13 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@bitfrost.no> wrote: > >> Are any of the USB devices you have bought so-called "USB certified", carry a USB logo and are registered by usb.org? > > Any suggestions for buying one these things to use? Anyone have an experience with one they can recommend? > > Although, I suppose the more important question is...even if > something is "USB certified", is it REALLY going to work? > > Just because it SHOULD work, WOULD it work? If all certified > means is that I theoretically could win a prolonged debate with > either FreeBSD contributors or the drive manufacturer, then it > hardly matters. Being right on the Internet is worth less than > nothing. > > I just want to buy half a dozen self-powered USB drives and > have them work with multiple architectures (i386 and amd64) > using the same recent, stable version of FreeBSD. Any advice > to help me accomplish this goal? > I have two 1TB USB3 external drives from Toshiba (laptop drives in a plastic enclosure) which work with both FreeBSD and Windows7. Since they're USB3 there's no problem with powering them. Transfer rates on the order of 90 MB/s. Here's what's on the sticker: www.toshibastorage.com v63700-C 1TB P/N: HDTB110EK3BA Don't know whether these are still available. Seems to me I bought them cheap on eBay or amazon. -- Gary Jennejohn
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