Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You may want to check out some of the network-attached-storage solutions.
> ASUS and Linksys have pretty cheap ones (not much more expensive than an
> external USB/firewire box) and it does give you a lot of extra flexibility.
Hmmm, I wanna use it as my
* Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-11 11:26:07 -0400]:
>
> Performancewise, it's probably not going to be as good as firewire (not sure
> about USB2). Also be super-extra careful to get a box that runs some Linux
> kernel firmware so you can get it integrated with your Linux environment
> Given the way disk prices have fallen, I'd like to get a new bigger
> disk (say 40-50 GB), but want to get something that I can easily move
> to a new system when I buy one. As I expect any new system (I'll
> probably buy one within the next 1-2 years) will use different
> somewhat different tec
On 2006-08-26 @ 13:44:29 (week 34) Miles Bader wrote:
> Hi, thanks for the review.
Sorry to take this long to respond. Been away for a short holiday.
> How's the I/O speed / CPU usage (I heard USB can eat a lot of CPU at
> high speeds)?
I haven't really measured it, but to me it was quite acc
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 01:44:29PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.A. de Vries) writes:
> > I recently bought such a beast for backup purposes. I choose an Icy Box
> > IB-360-BL. This is an external closure for 3.5" IDE/SATA disks and
> > features both USB and Firewire interfaces.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.A. de Vries) writes:
> I recently bought such a beast for backup purposes. I choose an Icy Box
> IB-360-BL. This is an external closure for 3.5" IDE/SATA disks and
> features both USB and Firewire interfaces. The disk itself I had to buy
> separately, but that was exactly what
On 2006-08-06 @ 09:27:48 (week 31) Miles Bader wrote:
> Hi, I'm looking for advice on buying a new hard-drive / external
> hard-drive enclosure:
[snip]
Hi Miles,
I recently bought such a beast for backup purposes. I choose an Icy Box
IB-360-BL. This is an external closure for 3.5" IDE/SATA disk
Hi, I'm looking for advice on buying a new hard-drive / external
hard-drive enclosure:
I'm currently using a rather elderly PC with a 5 GB SCSI hard-disk; it
has a (old-style) PCI bus and USB 1, but that's about it.
Given the way disk prices have fallen, I'd like to get a new bigger
disk (say 40-
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