On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 10:23 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > I found USB drives to be hugely unreliable. I ended up removing the > disks from their enclosures and using them inside the main computer > chassis, like a normal drive. > > I think something is buggy with the USB drive implementation, I'm beginning to wonder if that's be the case, whether it's a general problem, or just certain products are crap. > You might have better luck with eSATA drives, rather than USB. > > For my backups, I prefer to use something like rsnapshot > (http://rsnapshot.org/) to copy files to a remote live computer. This > works very well and very reliably, for me. In my main case, this is a laptop, so putting a drive inside isn't possible, and it has no esata. I'd been backing up to a server, and the ill-fated external drive. I like the idea of a removable drive, so a backup can be made and easily unplugged, as security against system/electrical screwups, and stored separately. But it seems less than reliable. I've tried those trays you slot in and out of a 5 inch bay, and was less than impressed (overheats, plastic, crappy fan, etc.), and it's only useable where you have a tray to plug into. The external drive in a box *seemed* a good alternative idea. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
