[Gllug] External hard disks

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On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Daniel P. Berrange prattled cheerily:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 06:02:32PM +0000, Jack Bertram wrote:
>> If I did this, presumably I could still use smartd to monitor it (over
>> usb?) and include it in volume groups (using LVM2) but swapping it
>> in/out when it failed would be much easier, and more hotpluggable.  I'd
>> also be able to lock it away - altogether much more flexible.
>> 
>> Anyone got any experience with using one of these or can tell me
>> whether they foresee any problems, with:
>> - speed compared to SATA (doesn't have to be rocket speed, just hold
>>   films, music, etc.)
> 
> Yeah, with USB-2 speed is not an issue.

CPU overhead is, though. It's at least as expensive as PIO-mode disk
access.

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