Re: external hard-disk enclosure advice?

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

hdv@jadev.org (J.A. de Vries) writes:
> I recently bought such a beast for backup purposes. I choose an Icy Box
> IB-360-BL. This is an external closure for 3.5" IDE/SATA disks and
> features both USB and Firewire interfaces. The disk itself I had to buy
> separately, but that was exactly what I wanted. 
>
> Pros: I can change disks whenever I want without bringing down the
> system and now I have a very flexible storage solution. Moreso because I
> have an USB network adapter, making it possible to turn the whole thing
> into a stand-alone network storage solution.

Hi, thanks for the review.  How's the I/O speed / CPU usage (I heard USB
can eat a lot of CPU at high speeds)?

I was thinking to make this disk my "main" disk, not a backup disk, so
I'm more concerned with that than most people probably are.

[Is there such a thing as an external SATA disk?  That should be much
faster I guess, but I'm not sure offhand if disk speeds justify worrying
about interface speed this much ... :-]

Thanks,

-Miles

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