I actually own a seagate freeagent 250GB drive and run ubuntu 7.10 on a HP nx7000 notebook. The only issue I have with it is that I have to plug the drive's USB cord into my computer before I plug it into the wall. The drive does spin down after significant idle time (read: greater than five minutes), but stays mounted. When I go to access a file on it there's just a few second delay as the drive spins up again. There is also no noticeable decrease in speed (granted, I am usually just watching a movie from it, not doing a hardcore data transfer).
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I actually own a seagate freeagent 250GB drive and run ubuntu 7.10 on a HP nx7000 notebook.
The only issue I have with it is that I have to plug the drive's USB cord into my computer before I plug it into the wall. The drive does spin down after significant idle time (read: greater than five minutes), but stays mounted.
When I go to access a file on it there's just a few second delay as the drive spins up again.
There is also no noticeable decrease in speed (granted, I am usually just watching a movie from it, not doing a hardcore data transfer).