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Subject: Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk
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Jeffrey Goldberg wrote=3A
=3E On Jan 11=2C 2010=2C at 6=3A32 AM=2C Matthias Apitz wrote=3A
=3E
=3E  =20
=3E=3E Can someone recommend a good external USB disk for backups which wor=
ks
=3E=3E with FreeBSD 8=2E0 and has more than 512 GByte=3F Thx in advance
=3E=3E    =20
=3E
=3E Pretty much anything that you consider to be a reliable supplier will d=
o=2E  There are no specific FreeBSD requirements as far as I know=2E
=3E
=3E I recommend that you get a disk that is externally powered instead of w=
ith power supplied over USB=2E
=3E  =20
I use Freecom hard drive XS 1=2E5TB USB2=2E0 on our fallback servers as
back-up disks=2E
These are always connected to the servers for over half a year now=2E
I have not had any problems with them and the price was ok=2E
da1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da1=3A =3CFreecom Hard Drive XS 1=2E00=3E Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device=

da1=3A 40=2E000MB/s transfers
da1=3A 1430799MB =282930277168 512 byte sectors=3A 255H 63S/T 182401C=29
/dev/da1s1d on /usr/home/www/backup =28ufs=2C local=2C soft-updates=29
This is on FreeBSD 7=2E2-RELEASE-p6


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