[Gllug] Portable and network storage.

[Nix]

On 18 Nov 2008, Richard Jones verbalised:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:16:47PM +0000, Nix wrote:
>> I believe I have not yet said with sufficient loudness that you are a
>> complete maniac for trying to use USB storage for *anything* requiring
>> reliability?
>
> You keep saying it, but I haven't had any problems with reliability
> and USB hard drives.  (Speed, on the other hand ...)

You are luckier than me: every single machine I have ever bought
corrupts data in transit at quite appalling rates (as in >1 bit per
10Mb).

Its particularly noticeable with VIA motherboards (yes, I know, they're
really crappy).

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