[dba-Tech] External hard drive

Whatever brand you buy (and I tend to go with Fantom drives) I would recommend getting those with a FireWire interface rather than USB, even better, FireWire 2. The reason I suggest this is that with FireWire you can daisy chain them together. You only need one FireWire port on the host machine and all the drives run off it. No need to use up all your machines USB ports or to invest in USB hubs. FireWire 2 gives you up to 800MBS throughput. 

Lambert

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:39 AM
To: DBA Tech List
Subject: [dba-Tech] External hard drive

I'm going to buy an external hard drive -- should've done it a long time ago.

Any recommendations? I need to buy one locally instead of online -- would have to make a 2 hour trip into the credit union to deposit funds and we don't "do" credit. They have them at Wal-mart, just don't know anything about brands, features, gotchas, etc.

Seems to me like it should just be a question of size versus price balance -- I'm not expecting this to be a difficult process.

Susan H. 

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