Using External USB Drive for Linux Installation
Ted Roche
tedroche at tedroche.com
Thu Dec 30 13:38:00 EST 2004
On Dec 30, 2004, at 11:44 AM, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> I haven't found a "fast" external USB hard drive. I'm not sure why not
> (480MBps should be fast enough), and until the last 3 months, I've
> found
> reliability to be a problem with external USB hard drives.
Last year, I picked up a Western Digital external 160 Gb with USB 2 and
Firewire ports to back up various Mac, Linux and Windows boxes around
the office, It "feels" like the Firewire file transfer rates are
faster, although I haven't benchmarked it, either.
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com
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