From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 11 20:13:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 166F416A40F for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:13:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd5mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B1343D80 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:12:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr8so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.101]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J6Z00LKAMQHXME0@l-daemon> for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:11:05 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.7]) by pd4mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J6Z00776MQH3K91@pd4mr8so.prod.shaw.ca> for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:11:05 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0J6Z00163MQGWRG0@l-daemon> for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:11:05 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 66140 invoked from network); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:11:03 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:11:03 +0000 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:11:02 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <452D4B70.5080103@raad.tartu.ee> To: Toomas Aas Message-id: <452D4FD6.8060801@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <452D4B70.5080103@raad.tartu.ee> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060416) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using external USB2.0 HDD for backup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:13:00 -0000 Toomas Aas wrote: > Does anyone have good experience using external USB 2.0 HDD for backup > with FreeBSD 6? Yes. I have a 250GB Seagate drive inside a Vantec NexStar3 USB enclosure and it works quite well -- the performance is slightly worse than the raw drive specs, but at 25 MB/s transfer rate it's certainly good enough for backups. More details: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-01-28-vantex-nexstar3.html Colin Percival