Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265413AbTF1VAn (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 17:00:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265418AbTF1VAn (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 17:00:43 -0400 Received: from vsmtp2.tin.it ([212.216.176.222]:51702 "EHLO vsmtp2.tin.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265413AbTF1VAm (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 17:00:42 -0400 Message-ID: <3EFE035C.8030503@libero.it> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:06:36 +0200 From: Abramo Bagnara User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it-IT; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030314 X-Accept-Language: en, it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Larry McVoy , Scott McDermott , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down References: <20030627163720.GF357@zip.com.au> <1056732854.3172.56.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030627235150.GA21243@work.bitmover.com> <20030627165519.A1887@beaverton.ibm.com> <20030628001625.GC18676@work.bitmover.com> <20030627205140.F29149@newbox.localdomain> <20030628031920.GF18676@work.bitmover.com> <1056827655.6295.22.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030628191847.GB8158@work.bitmover.com> <20030628193857.GH841@gallifrey> <1056832290.6289.44.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1056832290.6289.44.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1035 Lines: 28 Alan Cox ha scritto: > On Sad, 2003-06-28 at 20:38, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > >>Tapes are a pain; but at the type of 40GB range is it worth considering >>a pile of external USB/Firewire hard drives? > > > I'm testing the USB2 disk idea at the moment. Big problem is performance > - 5Mbytes/second isnt the best backup rate in the world. IIRC some weeks ago I've verified 13 Mbytes/second using an el cheapo external box with both USB2 and IEEE-1394 (tested with the latter), a Maxtor 6Y120L0 and vanilla Linux 2.4.20 I've not the stuff handy now, but I'm almost sure of this number. -- Abramo Bagnara mailto:abramo.bagnara@libero.it Opera Unica Phone: +39.546.656023 Via Emilia Interna, 140 48014 Castel Bolognese (RA) - Italy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/