Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-21 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, January 14, 2010 a las 01:40:26PM +0100, Bas Smeelen escribió: I use Freecom hard drive XS 1.5TB USB2.0 on our fallback servers as back-up disks. These are always connected to the servers for over half a year now. I have not had any problems with them and the price was

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-21 Thread Bas Smeelen
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, January 14, 2010 a las 01:40:26PM +0100, Bas Smeelen escribió: I use Freecom hard drive XS 1.5TB USB2.0 on our fallback servers as back-up disks. These are always connected to the servers for over half a year now. I have not had any problems with

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-21 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, January 21, 2010 a las 01:37:55PM +0100, Bas Smeelen escribió: I have had two hard locks of the kernel until now using this drive; the 1st while running the dump(1M) (a second dump went fine); the 2nd while uncompressing the 88 GByte file of such a dump; this is with

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-18 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, January 14, 2010 a las 01:40:26PM +0100, Bas Smeelen escribió: It's only one partition. I created it with sysinstall. fb1:/ # fdisk /dev/da1 *** Working on device /dev/da1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=182401 heads=255

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, just buy the hard disk of your choice and put it into the case of your choice. I use only disks which come with five years warrenty. On 14 January 2010 pm 20:01:08 Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Tuesday, January 12, 2010 a las 08:12:17AM +0100, Bas Smeelen escribió: I use Freecom hard

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, January 12, 2010 a las 08:12:17AM +0100, Bas Smeelen escribió: I use Freecom hard drive XS 1.5TB USB2.0 on our fallback servers as back-up disks. These are always connected to the servers for over half a year now. I have not had any problems with them and the price was ok.

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-14 Thread Bas Smeelen
I use Freecom hard drive XS 1.5TB USB2.0 on our fallback servers as back-up disks. These are always connected to the servers for over half a year now. I have not had any problems with them and the price was ok. da1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da1: Freecom Hard Drive XS 1.00 Fixed

Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-11 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Can someone recommend a good external USB disk for backups which works with FreeBSD 8.0 and has more than 512 GByte? Thx in advance matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Vote NO to EU

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: Can someone recommend a good external USB disk for backups which works with FreeBSD 8.0 and has more than 512 GByte? Thx in advance Pretty much anything that you consider to be a reliable supplier will do. There are no specific FreeBSD

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-11 Thread Bas Smeelen
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: Can someone recommend a good external USB disk for backups which works with FreeBSD 8.0 and has more than 512 GByte? Thx in advance Pretty much anything that you consider to be a reliable supplier will do.