Elecom SGD-NYU USB 3.0 External Hard Drives

well this is exactly a seagate expansion drive ..and the cover looks exactly the same

 

If they are silent it means they are SSDs… But it’s not written, so I guess they are not SSDs, and not silent…

It doesn’t even say if they are 2.5" or 3.5". And HDDs that don’t work on Linux, really?

That’s a joke.

 

Of course an unformatted HDD over a simple usb interface supports linux.

They just don't list linux due to such a small user base.
Linux is so vague/generic so they definitely aren't going to list every distro as it would confuse most people.

 

There would be no point doing that since hardware support is in Linux itself (the kernel).

 

No type C port, now, in the year 2017? Lame... When I made an attempt at finding more details about this product, I got confusing info all over the Internet.
Lame x2.

 

It's not at all vague/generic. In fact, everything you need to support an external drive is already baked in the Linux kernel itself and it's distro-independent. People in companies listing specs should have known better.

Exactly.

 

@Ministers and agents:
-the Linux user base certainly cannot be estimated as "small". And most certainly not as small to be dismissed as insignificant
-if it is "vague/generic" in terms of the number of "distros", it still shouldn't prevent Elecom to MENTION Linux (simply: Linux, not any particular distro). AND the UNIX, too! But, the BigBadBill is using a strategy known as "money talks", right? "I'll pay you too keep silent about it...to avoid mentioning it"

 

You two misunderstood my meaning.

Using the word Linux alone is a vague term due to lack of specifics.

They aren't going to list Ubuntu support only because other people would ask why it doesn't support X distro and they certainly aren't going to list every distro.

 

It doesn't even mention if it runs BOT or UASP. Probably means it runs BOT, so no thanks.

 

Yeah, a type C port would be cool. I can tell you that the 4TB unit is PMR, the drive is 15mm thick and power usage is quoted as 5 V@850 mA. (I may have bought a couple and made a stripeset for storage purposes because it was cheaper than any PMR 8TB drive.) I did benchmark the drives before I removed them from their cases, basically what you'd expect from a mechanical drive.