Messages in this thread |  | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: bkbits.net is down | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2003 00:55:53 +0200 |
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Am Sonntag, 29. Juni 2003 00:15 schrieb Dr. David Alan Gilbert: > * 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+ ?
It should. 2.5 is a lot closer to that.
Regards Oliver
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