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Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>,
	Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com>
Subject: Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.
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> and six incremental backups.
> 	I have had no problems with reliability.
> 	I /do/ have problems with speed.  The fast recorded throughput
> was aroud 3.5 bytes/second; faster than the SCSI-1 DLT it replaces,
you must have something wrong. my USB drive gets 27MB/s. yes this 
480Mbit/s is USB isn't real, but half of it is.