On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Peter Sjoberg wrote:

> [...]
> What I'm thinking of is that
> I get 3 external disks (USB or eSata, size to be determent)

I have been doing backups to external USB 2 disks for about a year or so 
(storage server is a Linux box). It works well enough most of the time, 
but those disks are very slow (it can manage about 20 MB/sec with a 
trailing wind) and have a tendency to fragility. I also use spooling, with 
the spool on SCSI drives; one of the situations where the combination of 
spooling and backup to disk seems to make sense. I'm planning on replacing 
the USB disks (there are seven of them, 1 TB each) with a SATA shelf with 
RAID 5 or 6. I would suggest avoiding USB.

Steve

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