Has anyone used this to make a bootable linux drive?
1400663
Yes. I've used this USB to install and use a live OS with openSUSE, ubuntu, Debain ect. It has worked every time.
430598
Yes, but honestly I wouldn't recommend it. Having a drive fail on that setup would kill you and the interface that your presented with on this device really limits the usability of anything over 2tb
293592
I used it on Mint, and got it working, but it didn't perform as well as it did on windows. It broke and they wouldn't honor the warranty so I can't test on my current distro. I would say go with something else for Linux.
356546
You should be able to use the gparted partitioner in Ubuntu Netbook Remix, Ubuntu (Standard), or some other Linux distro. That's the simple answer. You would still have to make a boot USB first. http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu/unr
162281
I don't know how it would act with Linux, but, with Microsoft Windows is proved to be unreliable - data corruption, lock ups... with a known good SATA drive. In other words, I would look elsewhere if you value your data!
563379
The stripped down Linux it ships with will let it boot but is not otherwise useful. I installed Fedora 20 desktop with the help of a USB connected DVD drive. I use it daily and am very pleased with it. I think that it is an outstanding value. I do use a wireless trackball to make up for the integrated mousepad which is not outstanding.
1335432
I have not tried yet.it seems to be tricky with the UEFI boot.I went the virtual machne way instead. It runs great with the amount of power this beast has.Best regardsClement
614672
This depends entirely on your host system (Linux?) or the filesystem on the drive. Any modern Linux kernel will have USB support available. I have used these devices many times with Linux to do data recovery on windows filesystems.
842706
I think it does, worst case scenario it doesn't work and you send it back to the seller. I wouldn't though as it worked on 3 different hard drives I used it on and I was able to get all my data. None were Linux but they were all different and it worked on all of them.
788305
It would have been helpful if you had described what you intend to do. Clone what, exactly, would be a good start. And do you have any extra hardware available, such as an unused HDD that could be used for temporary storage?
2152960
It did not work for me in a late 2008 Unibody; I used SuperDuper to clone it, but it would not Boot. After multiple attempts, I gave up.
1975928
You should be able to. I was able to reformat it to ext4 for a Linux data drive with no problems.
2279319
Nope. Tried using a linux boot CD and deep scanning, but no dice. I'm going to get an SSD so this never happens again.
191765
I am able to use it with Linux without the software, so I assume you can just mount the drive like any other USB drive in Windows.
100537
Yes, I have. There is no problem doing this as these drives are generic. However, the company I bought it from sent me one which appeared new (with new packaging) but tested as having thousands of hours of use on it. The test said it was working just fine but it wasn't a new device. I did not pursue the matter further as I did not intend to put this computer into daily use and it was not worth the hassle.
62248
I do believe it will. I'll boot to a linux USB, but the RocketRAID (NTFS) initializes in POST by motherboard firmware before Windows loads.
1449471
It depends on how big the USB drive is. Windows XP is a pretty big OS compared to Linux. It also depends on whether or not the BIOS supports booting from USB.