I have been using pcbackup to backup 4 desktops ultimately onto an external
USB drive for the past 2 years with no problems. I would admit however that
I would not recommend this for anything more than the trivial backups I
do.I will also add that I have bare metal backups for the hosts I care
about.
Jon
On 22 Apr 2013 16:39, "Andy Smith" <andy@???> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:30:06PM +0100, Chris Dennis wrote:
> > On 22/04/13 14:44, Andy Smith wrote:
> > >And yet I would still choose storage over a 1Gig Ethernet as opposed
> > >to over USB3.
> >
> > Why? :)
> >
> > There seems to be a lot of aversion on this list to USB-connected
> > hard drives. What are the advantages of Ethernet-connected ones?
>
> Every USB storage device I've ever used, including on USB3, has been
> slow and unreliable regardless of the theoretical limits of a USB
> bus.
>
> Take the USB2 480Mbit/s theoretical performance: have you EVER got
> 60MByte/etc to a USB disk, even as a streaming read? And then try it
> for random writes, and compare that to SATA-II doing same.
>
> Like the popular Meatloaf song goes,
> I'll use USB for keyboard and mice and wifi adapters and and.. but
> I won't use USB for storage
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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