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Are some HDD's incompatible with Linux?

rated 0 times [ 1] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 2709 / 1 Year ago, thu, april 20, 2023, 11:41:51

Having spent nearly 20 hours over the last two days trying to install two different distros of Linux (settling my attentions on Ubuntu) on two seperate Western Digital WD Blue WD10EZEX (1TB) Hard Drives, I've started to wonder whether or not certain Hard Drives are compatible with installations of Linux.

And, if certain Hard Drives are incompatible, how would you go about telling whether or not they were? Would it be 'labelled on the box', so to speak?

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answered 1 Year ago giccolla · Accepted Answer

While I don't believe this is a question with a viable answer, here goes nothing:

Some drives in my experience have failed because they were bad out of the box, others because of age. I usually recommend WD for disc drives because I haven't had many issues. If you were to ask for help installing Ubuntu can gave the errors you were having maybe someone could better assist.

That said, I have only ever seen the Tux-Approved logo ONCE and that was on a Toshiba drive in 2008. Once again I believe this question would be better placed in Meta AskUbuntu