ron.l.johnson wrote: > I've been a big FW fan for many years. My backups, though, have only > been (because of compression) in the 70-85GB range.
70-85 MB/s (?) using Firewire II (800 Mbps)? I am able to get ~40 MB/s on Firewire I (400 Mbps). > But this mirror was 630GB, and along around 600GB, the sbp2 driver > went squirrely, throwing all sorts of messages to syslog and then > hanging. http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Sbp2 Buggy device drivers are not good... > USB (that enclosure has both FW & USB jacks) worked fine, though, > giving me a consistent 30MBps rate the whole time, finishing seconds > over 6 hours. Single-device storage capacities have been growing faster than their throughput, which makes for long days. (I just migrated ~340 GB to a new/old PIII 600 MHz machine with LUKS encryption at ~10 MB/s; 10 hours over the wire, plus more time ironing out wrinkles.) > eSATA is my next try, when I get the chance. Same here. Given the present economy, it will be a while... David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org