From owner-freebsd-hardware  Mon Nov  4 11:17:19 2002
Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE88737B401
	for <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>; Mon,  4 Nov 2002 11:17:18 -0800 (PST)
Received: from arg1.demon.co.uk (arg1.demon.co.uk [62.49.12.213])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8382A43E42
	for <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>; Mon,  4 Nov 2002 11:17:14 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from arg-bsd@arg1.demon.co.uk)
Received: by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1002)
	id 253F89B29; Mon,  4 Nov 2002 19:16:01 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id 0024F5D0C; Mon,  4 Nov 2002 19:16:00 +0000 (GMT)
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 19:16:00 +0000 (GMT)
From: Andrew Gordon <arg-bsd@arg1.demon.co.uk>
X-X-Sender:  <freebsd@server.arg.sj.co.uk>
To: Hari Bhaskaran <subscr@spider.netmails.net>
Cc: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Recommended backup solution for a 1U rackmount
In-Reply-To: <20021104120234.A81551@spider.netmails.net>
Message-ID: <20021104191028.L76738-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-hardware.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-hardware>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-hardware>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Hari Bhaskaran wrote:
>
> I am trying to find a reasonable backup (hardware)
> solution for a 1U rack-mount machine. I couldn't find
> any slim tape drives (that are not SCSI). Here are my
> options. Can anyone give more info whether these are
> feasible?
>
> 1. Buy an external hard-disk (20+ GB or so). Do USB
>    external storage work on FreeBSD? Plus I should
>    be able to connect and disconnect without reboot.

This is what I do (currently using 160Gb Maxtor drives).  Firewire seems
to be better than USB at present, both in performance and stability.  USB1
performance is always going to be relatively limited, USB2 might be OK
when FreeBSD support catches up.  Meantime, Firewire cards are cheap if
you've got the slot space available.


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message