[mdlug] Damaged Image recovery

[Dan Pritts]

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 03:41:04PM -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Dan Pritts wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 12:03:28PM -0700, Michael Mikowski wrote:
> >> And SATA RAID almost certainly beats the pants off USB drives for performance and reliability :)
> > 
> > sata storage of any sort almost certainly beats the pants off USB
> > drives for just about anything except perhaps cost.
> 
> Or you just buy a SATA drive, and put it in a $35 USB
> enclosure...then SATA marginally beats a USB drive.

that's exactly what i *wouldn't* do.  

USB is cheap and old and performs like it.

SATA is much, much faster and is probably more reliable.

I'm not saying there's no place for usb drives - usb is obviously
ubiquitous - but if you want performance don't use usb.

danno
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