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Alan Cox ha scritto: > On Sad, 2003-06-28 at 20:38, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > >>Tapes are a pain; but at the type of 40GB range is it worth considering >>a pile of external USB/Firewire hard drives? > > > I'm testing the USB2 disk idea at the moment. Big problem is performance > - 5Mbytes/second isnt the best backup rate in the world. IIRC some weeks ago I've verified 13 Mbytes/second using an el cheapo external box with both USB2 and IEEE-1394 (tested with the latter), a Maxtor 6Y120L0 and vanilla Linux 2.4.20 I've not the stuff handy now, but I'm almost sure of this number. -- Abramo Bagnara mailto:abramo.bagnara@libero.it Opera Unica Phone: +39.546.656023 Via Emilia Interna, 140 48014 Castel Bolognese (RA) - Italy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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