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[Charles Wyble]

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.