Topic: Firewire drives for external backups.

[Jeff Fox]

I'm working on setting up the hardware for a new SME system.
I'm planning on using SME v6.0.
The plan is to have a pair of 250GB drives mirrored and then use a pair of external 250GB firewire drives to use for offsite backups. They will be swapped weekly or more often.

What kind of IEEE 1394 controller should I use?
What kind of external drives IEEE 1394 drive enclosures are recommended?

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[Reinhold]

Jeff,



...seriously: I've had nothing but trouble on a LaCie 1394 box ... using USB 2.0 now (but not for SME).
If you really want to transfer 250Gb once a week why not go "hotpluggable- removable SerialATA" -box.
Sata could give you  a whopping 50MB/s versus a maximum of 5-6 MB/s on the Firewire (go do some math ... and absolutely NO interface problems .

[Jeff Fox]

Good idea!

[Michael Doerner]

> "hotpluggable- removable SerialATA" -box.
> Sata could give you  a whopping 50MB/s versus a maximum of
> 5-6 MB/s on the Firewire (go do some math ... and
> absolutely NO interface problems .
Reinhold,

That sounds very interesting for us but it was my understanding that SATA support is not that easy (maybe on SME5.6 only but 6.0 it's there?)

Regards,
Michael Doerner

[Reinhold]

Michael,

...while I do have little 5.6 experience... I can confirm that in SME 6.0 Sata is a piece of cake... direct support in the 'new' kernel (which isn't that new either ... remember we are talking RH 7.3 here # rpm -q kernel ...still gives...kernel-2.4.20-18.7 ...

If you need device specific's just googling for "RH7.3+question" will mostly help ...else I may be able to point .-)