[SWLUG] USB backup storage devices

[swlug at azem.org]

with regards to usb dvd, the best £30 i spent this year was a usb 
to ide connector (with psu) from maplins.  It can be used with hard 
drives or disk drives no problem and appears at sda1 as one would 
expect. 
I also have a harddrive split in to 2 partitions, which boots via usb 
thanks to the new bios'.

my dvd drive is a lite-on which works fine with growisofs and i use 
this to backup and store data.  I boot to knoppix and use k3b.

with regards to dvd drives, i have seen that dual layer 9g drives are 
below the £100 mark.

I have used banks of laCie drives in the past, and they are very 
reliable, but very needlessly expencive byte for byte.

stu




> I've been wondering about the DVD writers e.g. from LaCie and
> Iomega, but would appreciate your advice and experience re DVDs,
> Disk drives, tapes and anything else that might be used for backing
> up.  About 2Gb capacity would backup data.  60Gb would backup the
> whole system.