> On 01/31/11 07:17, mayak-cq wrote:
> > hi all,
> > 
> > just a quick question about what the best approach is for having
> > two usb storage devices
> 
> One piece of not-specifically-bacula-related advice:  Rather than
> buying off-the-shelf USB drives, you may be better advised to buy a
> USB external housing and install a separately-purchased drive of known
> quality into it.  A lot of off-the-shelf USB disk drives turn out to
> contain the absolute cheapest possible disks, with predictable adverse
> implications for both performance and reliability.
> 

Another way of dealing with cheap USB-drives could be to build a
zfs-pool. You'll need to set up a Solaris or FreeBSD (I took a
FreeBSD zfs-only system) host which serves at least as the SD.
In the end you'll have a bunch of cheap hardware made reliable with the
amazing capabilities of zfs.

Greetings,

Oliver



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