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Date:      Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:06:37 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, roberthuff@rcn.com, chris@vindaloo.com
Subject:   Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.
Message-ID:  <20080617180604.I8795@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <200806171540.m5HFe92o057907@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <200806171540.m5HFe92o057907@lurza.secnetix.de>

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> Cheap controller in the USB enclosure.  I've used quite
> a few USB enclosures in the past years, and there are
> significant performance differences.  As a rule of thumb,
> the cheaper the box, the slower it is.  Of course there
> are exceptions to that rule.

actually - firewire enclosures are not much more expensive, but you always 
get at least 40MB/s




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