Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:03:48 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Tenebrae <tenebrae_BSD@niceboots.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives Message-ID: <3E5A6C94.5080102@potentialtech.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. Good luck >>I've had good luck with VXA-1 tape drives in the past and Ecrix now has the >>VXA-2 drive with 80GB uncompressed capacity at roughly 20GB/hour >>throughput. The VXA-2 drive uses Ultra-2 SCSI interface, so finding a >>controller that is well supported on FreeBSD won't be a problem. > > *looks at the price, chokes, coughs* > WAY too much for my budget! Good luck then. If you find a cheaper way to go, let me know, as I've spend hours and hours researching this, and the VXA drives are the best price I could find for that volume of backup space. On the flip side, I will have to say that we've been very happy with the ones we've purchased. Fast and reliable. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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