Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265441AbTF1Wmg (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 18:42:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265442AbTF1Wmg (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 18:42:36 -0400 Received: from Mail1.kontent.de ([81.88.34.36]:20921 "EHLO Mail1.KONTENT.De") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265441AbTF1Wmf (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 18:42:35 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Alan Cox Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 00:55:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: Larry McVoy , Scott McDermott , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <1056732854.3172.56.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <1056832290.6289.44.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030628221507.GI841@gallifrey> In-Reply-To: <20030628221507.GI841@gallifrey> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306290055.53792.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 852 Lines: 22 Am Sonntag, 29. Juni 2003 00:15 schrieb Dr. David Alan Gilbert: > * Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: > > 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. > > Hmm - why should it suck so badly? Shouldn't USB 2 (yes I mean the > 480Mbps) manage 40MByte/s+ ? It should. 2.5 is a lot closer to that. Regards Oliver - 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/