Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:02:31 -0500 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Tenebrae <tenebrae_BSD@niceboots.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives Message-ID: <3E5A7A57.5020407@mitre.org> In-Reply-To: <20030224103601.L22218-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> References: <20030224103601.L22218-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com>
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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. And off the wall suggestion here is to buy a bigger case (~$100 using your old power supply and getting a nice case), an ATA controller card (~$35), and a 100GB+ ATA HDD (~$150). That should keep you nicely under budget and you can even move one of the slave devices off of your existing ATA chains to improve its performance. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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