[mdlug] Damaged Image recovery

[Garry Stahl]

Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> 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.
>   

I have a 250 sitting here. 

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