Re: Looking for Hardware Recommendations

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Author: Charles Wyble
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Looking for Hardware Recommendations


Eric Shubert wrote:

> Do you really need the speed for backups? You might consider using USB2
> instead of eSATA. I have external backup drives configured mirrored
> (with software raid-1) on USB2. It works nicely. It's not as fast as
> eSATA would be, but it's adequate.
>


So many USB drives and motherboards come with e-sata support though.
Might as well. :)

I use USB2 for my backups with rsync and it works great. However I'm
considering moving to e-sata for additional speed.
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