[mdlug] Damaged Image recovery

[Dan Pritts]

SATA, PATA, SCSI, SAS, Fiber channel, i don't really care what
the drive's native interface is.

putting it behind a USB2 connection will make it run slower than 
its native interface.

that's my only point.

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 10:40:52AM -0400, 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.
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