I think that pretty much anything you can connect via USB will work.
That said, I’ve got three USB drives that are all Samsung T-series USB flash drives, and they work fine by themselves plugged into everything I’ve tried. But I can’t get any of my Macs to format them to work as Time Machine drives.
Maybe it’s Samsung, maybe it’s Apple, maybe it’s because they’re not spinning HDDs, I dunno.
Is there anybody here who’s had bad luck with one of them so I know who to blame and can rule out the others?
-David Schwartz
> On Jun 24, 2025, at 5:00 PM, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:25:06 -0700
> Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> ChatGPT is saying I can use an old laptop (I have a few) and a 8tb
>> Seagate Backup Plus, connected by USB, running Samba or
>> OpenMediaVault. ChatGPT says OpenMediaVault is the better option.
>>
>> Any thoughts much welcome!!
>
> I haven't had good luck with Seagate.
>
> SteveT
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