Using external USB2.0 HDD for backup

[Colin Percival]

Toomas Aas wrote:
> Does anyone have good experience using external USB 2.0 HDD for backup
> with FreeBSD 6?

Yes.  I have a 250GB Seagate drive inside a Vantec NexStar3 USB enclosure
and it works quite well -- the performance is slightly worse than the raw
drive specs, but at 25 MB/s transfer rate it's certainly good enough for
backups.

More details: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-01-28-vantex-nexstar3.html

Colin Percival