From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 24 11: 3:57 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED61A37B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:03:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F2943FDF for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:03:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1OJ3mrX009793; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:03:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E5A6C94.5080102@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:03:48 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tenebrae Cc: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives References: <20030224103601.L22218-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tenebrae wrote: > On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Wes Peters wrote: > >>>On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 14:22, Tenebrae wrote: >>> >>>>I'm looking at using aforementioned hardware to back up my server. >>>>There aren't any more available IDE channels or even places inside the >>>>case to put another drive, so external is what I'm looking at. >>>>My favourite vendor also has an external PARALLEL drive enclosure. >>>>With the potential data corruption mentioned with Firewire, would I be >>>>better off with getting the parallel enclosure? >>>>I have too much data to back up to tape. >>> >>Really? Even to those multi-drive parallel AIT network backup devices? >>Or must too much data to backup to tape on your budget? > > Too much to back up for my budget (budget? what's that?). > I have about 70GB of stuff to back up and I don't want to spend over > $500US. Good luck >>I've had good luck with VXA-1 tape drives in the past and Ecrix now has the >>VXA-2 drive with 80GB uncompressed capacity at roughly 20GB/hour >>throughput. The VXA-2 drive uses Ultra-2 SCSI interface, so finding a >>controller that is well supported on FreeBSD won't be a problem. > > *looks at the price, chokes, coughs* > WAY too much for my budget! Good luck then. If you find a cheaper way to go, let me know, as I've spend hours and hours researching this, and the VXA drives are the best price I could find for that volume of backup space. On the flip side, I will have to say that we've been very happy with the ones we've purchased. Fast and reliable. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message