> > > Well, $229.99 buys you a 500GB hard drive and a 250GB hard drive. Seagate.
> > >
> > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148136
> >
> > A good buy but the 500GB drive runs hotter then hell.
>
> Just got it today. I'm formatting it with truecrypt and it says it's
> going to take 5 hours...
>
> Regarding the heat, SMART reports 47C but I'm not entirely sure that's
> right; it's lukewarm to the touch. However, I'm using it as an
> external drive so that could be why.
>
> Also, it seems louder than other Seagate drives I've had, but that
> could also be a result of its position outside my case.
Cool, let me know how it works out for a external HD.
Seems great so far.
I decided to go with a small 8MB partition at the beginning of the
disk that contains just the windows and linux versions of Truecrypt.
The rest of the disk is one big Truecrypt volume. Inside that, I've
got an NTFS filesystem. I used Truecrypt because it's available for
Linux and mature in Windows. I used NTFS because I need to have files
over 4GB in size and all of the ext2/ext3 drivers for Windows out
there either crash my computer, don't work well with hot-pluggable
drives, are read-only, or are some combination of the three.
*sigh* Why can't we have one decent filesystem that's both stable AND
read-write in linux and windows?
Anyway, as far as temperature goes, I turned off the external drive
enclosure's fan and let it run for a while. The "worst" value recorded
in SMART for the drive is 51C.
As far as noise goes, I don't think most people would object and I
don't find it exactly irritating, but every time I hear it seek it
brings back painful childhood memories :(.
Eric
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