Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:12:17 +0100 From: Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: guru@unixarea.de Subject: Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk Message-ID: <4B4C20D1.3060408@ose.nl> In-Reply-To: <8983DD34-2BF4-4FC9-B96F-5108E10AE9C4@goldmark.org> References: <20100111123219.GA2270@current.Sisis.de> <8983DD34-2BF4-4FC9-B96F-5108E10AE9C4@goldmark.org>
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Jeffrey Goldberg wrote=3A =3E On Jan 11=2C 2010=2C at 6=3A32 AM=2C Matthias Apitz wrote=3A =3E =3E =20 =3E=3E Can someone recommend a good external USB disk for backups which wor= ks =3E=3E with FreeBSD 8=2E0 and has more than 512 GByte=3F Thx in advance =3E=3E =20 =3E =3E Pretty much anything that you consider to be a reliable supplier will d= o=2E There are no specific FreeBSD requirements as far as I know=2E =3E =3E I recommend that you get a disk that is externally powered instead of w= ith power supplied over USB=2E =3E =20 I use Freecom hard drive XS 1=2E5TB USB2=2E0 on our fallback servers as back-up disks=2E These are always connected to the servers for over half a year now=2E I have not had any problems with them and the price was ok=2E da1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da1=3A =3CFreecom Hard Drive XS 1=2E00=3E Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device= da1=3A 40=2E000MB/s transfers da1=3A 1430799MB =282930277168 512 byte sectors=3A 255H 63S/T 182401C=29 /dev/da1s1d on /usr/home/www/backup =28ufs=2C local=2C soft-updates=29 This is on FreeBSD 7=2E2-RELEASE-p6 DISCLAIMER=3A This e-mail is for the intended recipient=28s=29 only=2E Access=2C disclosure=2C copying=2C distribution or reliance on any of it by= anyone else is prohibited=2E If you have received it by mistake please let us know by reply and then del= ete it from your system=2E
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