Drive to Buy

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002BH4ONE/ref=pe_133010_19472470_pe_epc_t7

Seagate Expansion 2.0 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive ST320005EXA101-RK

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Elements-Desktop-External/dp/B002QEBMCI/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1

Western Digital WD Elements 2 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive

Arch Linux: ntpdate 4.2.6-1 / rdate / date

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19145

Package is flagged out of date.

rdate should be replaced with ntpdate.

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/udate.htm

date

Linux: Creating Hard Disk and ISO images

http://www.backuphowto.info/linux-backup-hard-disk-clone-dd

• dd if=/dev/sda of=~/disk1.img

This work for an win2k disk to pull the ISO.  I was able to used the pulled ISO to build a virtual machine.

Pogoplug Mounting a stock Image as RW

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/PlugApps:Pogoplug_Pro_Chroot

The command is:

• mount -t ubifs -o rw,remount,relatime /