Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:15:07 +0100 | From | "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <> | Subject | Re: bkbits.net is down |
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* Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: > 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.
Hmm - why should it suck so badly? Shouldn't USB 2 (yes I mean the 480Mbps) manage 40MByte/s+ ?
Disc struck me as so nice in the sense that its a file system and you don't need extra software, and that the recovery time is near instant.
(Incidentally - putting it in a RAID1 with a main disc would seem an interesting option and just letting RAID take a copy of the file system)
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