Seagate and WD drives have worked fine for me, both on ARM and x86.
WD drives detect a wd_ses device as well as the drive and I think that gives me LED control (great for turning off blinkenlights at night)
My main problem with backup drives at the moment is getting hdparm/power management settings to stick so the drives will spin down after an amount of time. I've had more luck with USB than ESATA in this case.
WD drives detect a wd_ses device as well as the drive and I think that gives me LED control (great for turning off blinkenlights at night)
My main problem with backup drives at the moment is getting hdparm/power management settings to stick so the drives will spin down after an amount of time. I've had more luck with USB than ESATA in this case.
I'd recommend AGAINST any ESATA/USB "docks" - the USB to SATA bridges seem to have a very high failure rate (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895085 for the first one I saw on Google)