[kwlug-disc] Linux-compatible eSATA expansion cards

[William Park]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:49:14PM -0400, Darcy Casselman wrote:
> I tried to buy a bare 3TB drive to put in an eSATA enclosure and was talked
> out of it by the sales guy.  I'm still not entirely sure what his deal was,
> but he was a sales guy.  And the external USB drive with the PCIe card was
> cheaper than the bare drive.  Which they didn't have in stock anyway.
> 
> And then it died 6 months later.  And I'm never buying a Seagate again.
> But I digress.

It's not Seagate.  It's USB enclosure:
    - no ventilation
    - crappy power supply
    - poor static/heat tolerance (that's why it's cheap)