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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