24 May 2006 ~ 7 Comments

New USB drive enclosure

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I needed some portable storage for my mp3s, so I ordered an AMS Venus DS3 3.5″ drive enclosure from NewEgg, and cashed in a gift card at Circuit City to get a 300GB Seagate drive.

Formatted the drive and copied everything over tonight:

Seagate 300GB HDD

That’s a lot of space, but I’m sure I can fill it.

BTW, if you are looking for an enclosure, I can’t recommend the AMS unit enough. There’s a reason it’s one of the top rated items at NewEgg. Inexpensive, easy to install, and almost completely silent. Good stuff.

Update: Contrary to the screenshot above, I ended up reformatting the drive as ext3. NTFS was just causing too many permission problems under Linux and Samba.

7 Responses to “New USB drive enclosure”

  1. seth 25 May 2006 at 9:23 am Permalink

    Cool. I was wondering about getting an enclosure for my 80GB drive at home, not as large as 300GB, but it would be nice for keeping my apps consitant from here to home.

    Laters

  2. John 25 May 2006 at 9:32 pm Permalink

    Like I said, I recommend the AMS. Seems to work quite nicely and it’s relatively cheap.

  3. Brad 26 May 2006 at 11:42 am Permalink

    MMMM Space. Gotta love it. I just tossed 250GB into my media server for now.

  4. Deryck 31 January 2007 at 12:08 am Permalink

    You said you reformatted to ext3, but how did you get windows to recognize it? I tried using an old ext2fs driver for windows a while back but had issues with ext2, let alone 3. Any suggestions?

  5. John 31 January 2007 at 12:59 am Permalink

    Deryck:

    I guess I should have clarified… the external drive is attached to my SC430 running Gentoo Linux. That’s why the switch to ext3 made my life easier.

    I’ve never tried to mount ext3 under Windows… but I can’t imagine it’s overly easy. :)

  6. Parminder 15 April 2007 at 5:56 pm Permalink

    You can mount ext3 partitions on windows using this windows level kernel drive: http://www.fs-driver.org/

    It mounts the ext3 filesystem as ext2 (backward compatibility). I have been using it for almost a year and never had a problem.


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