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Thanks... we took a chance and sent it to AWS... they were able to import it to S3.
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I know that AWS states that a hard drive sent to them for importing into S3 must be Red Hat Linux compatible... but would a &quot;run-of-the-mill&quot; external disk drive such as the Seagate STDR4000100 suffice?<br />
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I realize that it doesn't specifically state that it is RHL compatible, but not sure if it would be anyway... ?<br />
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(See attached.)<br />
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Thanks!<br />
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backup-plus-portable-v3-ds1853-1-150.pdf

I know that AWS states that a hard drive sent to them for importing into S3 must be Red Hat Linux compatible... but would a "run-of-the-mill" external disk drive such as the Seagate STDR4000100 suffice?

I realize that it doesn't specifically state that it is RHL compatible, but not sure if it would be anyway... ?

(See attached.)

Thanks!

Amazon S3 Import Hardware Requirements

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.

Storage Hardware

Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, that make up a cloud-computing platform  operated from 11 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "EC2", and Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as "S3". Other services include Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Route 53 (a DNS web service),  provides a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), storage, database, deployment and application services.