Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:40:12 -0400 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org> Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel? Message-ID: <200106261640.f5QGeCx01984@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:07:06 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106260906250.26804-100000@q.closedsrc.org>
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Lihn lamented, > On 2001-06-26, dochawk@psu.edu scribbled: > # I"m actually going with extra ide drives for backup on my scsi system. > # The price of 40G drives is down to about 1.5X the same amount of > # tapemedia, and then there's the tape drive. I'll have a 3 IDE RAID 5 > # rather than a tape drive. I'll also have the scsi cd/rw . . . > The only problem is that type of setup won't exactly work on a laptop > ;-) ahh, the troubles with today's small machines . . . I"m sure that I could find space for them in my old mac portable . . . come to think of it, various partitions on a 40G drive should be overkill for bacdking up a 40M . . . :) hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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