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Re: [opensuse] USB 2.0 external hard drives
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 02:20:08 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705030207560.22710@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Wednesday 2007-05-02 at 15:58 +0200, jdd wrote:
> > My PC doesn't have usb 2.0, so those network things are faster than usb.
>
> usb 2 is now 4 or 5 years old and available on addon cards, not usefull only
> for backup :-)
I know, I know, but I don't have dozens of PCI sockets. Only three.
> > And some of those boxes have three interfaces: network, usb, and firewire.
>
> well... I can use USB2 for video capture (it's nearly as fast as the original
> disk), certainly not network.
>
> given this the network gigabit is pretty cheap nowaday, and I would already
> use it if all my house was not wired on cat 5, too slow :-(
>
> if you can have gigabit, take it, you will be glad :-)
My router is 100 Mbit, so it's no use; same as my other PC, and those of
my "visitors".
In my particular case, a network disk is interesting, if I can find it
nice, cheap, and good. Otherwise, usb is not bad either, even if I have to
wait longer than you ;-)
Can't have everything state of the art.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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The Wednesday 2007-05-02 at 15:58 +0200, jdd wrote:
> > My PC doesn't have usb 2.0, so those network things are faster than usb.
>
> usb 2 is now 4 or 5 years old and available on addon cards, not usefull only
> for backup :-)
I know, I know, but I don't have dozens of PCI sockets. Only three.
> > And some of those boxes have three interfaces: network, usb, and firewire.
>
> well... I can use USB2 for video capture (it's nearly as fast as the original
> disk), certainly not network.
>
> given this the network gigabit is pretty cheap nowaday, and I would already
> use it if all my house was not wired on cat 5, too slow :-(
>
> if you can have gigabit, take it, you will be glad :-)
My router is 100 Mbit, so it's no use; same as my other PC, and those of
my "visitors".
In my particular case, a network disk is interesting, if I can find it
nice, cheap, and good. Otherwise, usb is not bad either, even if I have to
wait longer than you ;-)
Can't have everything state of the art.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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