[wplug] OT - word of warning on Maxtor 250GB drives

Bryon Gill bgtrio at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 15 15:27:07 EST 2006


I've been looking for a good, affordable, quiet backup solution, and this might 
be a winner- newegg.com is selling them for $80.

Can you run a hub out of it, or are you limited to two drives?  Does anyone have 
a recommendation for good USB 2.0 IDE hard drive enclosures?

Thanks,
Bryon


On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Zach wrote:

> On 2/15/06, Patrick Wagstrom <pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Zach,
>>
>> You might want to consider a LinkSys NSLU2.  It's a little network
>> device that you attach USB2.0 hard disks to.  Provides samba file
>> sharing, but because it runs Linux, you can use NFS and install backup
>> daemons on it.
>>
>> For my computer, I basically do all my backups over the network because
>> I've got 100Mbit ethernet but only USB 1.1 on board.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion Patrick. How much does that device cost?
> Does it come with wireless security features?
>
> Zach
>
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