[mdlug] Damaged Image recovery

[Aaron Kulkis]

Dan Pritts wrote:
> 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.
> 

Try finding an IDE drive to put into a USB carrier
any larger than 100 GB or so.

If you buy a 300 GB external USB drive, it's SATA inside.