Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
And you do not need to. Use for example rsnapshot for your backup purposes and after the initial "full backup", taking a while, the rest is a snap, even with the slowest possible connection type. regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org