On 8/22/05, Byron Pearce <pearceb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I concur. I have done tasks very similar to what Tim is describing and > it works great. > > One caveat, though, is to make sure you're using USB 2.0 if your laptop > doesn't support Firewire. I got stuck doing several hundred GB's over > USB 1.1 once and the experience was almost too painful to discuss. They didn't call it USB 1.1 for nothing. USB 1.1 ~ 1.1 MB/sec transfer rate off of a USB mounted external IDE drive. The same drive mounted on a USB 2.0 interface provides for about 27 MB/sec sustained transfer rate. Yes, there are vendors of PCI-X USB/1394 Firewire adapters, I found one for about 80 USD. If you instead hang the external IDE drive off of your laptop, you'll be limited to about 9 MB/sec transfer due to the fast ethernet bottleneck ... unless your laptop has a GigE nic. Pd > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 10:52, rjamya wrote: > > Excellent idea Tim, > > > > I'd say take 2 such disks with backup ... just in case solar flares > > decide to act up. > > > > Raj > > > > On 8/22/05, Tim Gorman <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This may sound a bit minimalist, but you can buy a 300Gb-512Gb > > firewire drive > > for $300-$500 or so. Make it into NFS mounted volumes > > presented from a > > laptop. Copy files to it, pack up the laptop and the drive(s) > > and then just > > drive to the other facility, repeat process in reverse. > -- > ==================================================================== > Byron Pearce mailto:pearceb@xxxxxxxxxx > Tenure Systems, Inc. Dallas/Fort Worth, TX > > "It's hard to be a ninja when you wear a beeper." > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- #/etc/init.d/init.cssd stop # f=ma, divide by 1, convert to moles. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l