advice on external HD

[jlittle]

... I was really considering Perth WA...

Most Australians say "great place, but too far from Australia".

[GerardV]

Most Australians say "great place, but too far from Australia".

It is a long way from anywhere, closer to Singapore that Sydney!

If you really want to get a good perspective of how big this place is, apart from going around it yourself, is to read Bill Bryon's book " Down Under" , an fantastic and hilarious read.

[life0riley]

It is a long way from anywhere, closer to Singapore that Sydney!

If you really want to get a good perspective of how big this place is, apart from going around it yourself, is to read Bill Bryon's book " Down Under" , an fantastic and hilarious read.

Did you mean Bill Bryson?

[GerardV]

Did you mean Bill Bryson?

Sorry of course i did

[millusions]

Indeed
http://www.australiangeographic.com....ls-the-top-30/

Before the property prices went nuts I was really considering Perth WA, the weather, the food...

It's not all bad, you have this supposedly dangerous creatures, but if you look at statistics of people actually hurt by these creatures you come to the conclusion that its actually quite safe here.

check out Sydney real estate, it has over taken insane a long time ago, you can buy a garage for less than 0.5 million.

[dbaker]

wow, for some reason I never got notifications for this thread and completely missed all the activity.
anyway, I got a HD...
It's a WD elements, 2 TB. I did a lot of reading around and saw more people having success with it on Linux than the Passport Ultra (probably cause it's a more basic model). It was cheaper too. I formatted it as ext4 and immediately afterwards it thrashed a bit, but after unplugging and plugging back in a few times it settled down and seems fine now. I've backed everything up on it already, it's super fast.
will keep you posted on how it goes!