From: Muli Ben-Yehuda (mulix_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Wed 25 Jan 2006 - 22:59:56 IST
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:35:07PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> 2. Use IDE drives inside a USB 2.0 adapter. Buy a few removable IDE
> adapters and mount one case inside an external USB IDE adapter. This
> allows you to easilly (no screwdrivers) replace the disks. If your
> storage volume is as you describe it, fairly small disks should suffice.
> Store several backups on each drive, and you are not wasting much space.
> As for verify - it is easier for drives. Most drives support SMART.
> Unfortunately, in order to run SMART tools on an IDE disk connected via
> USB (same goes for SATA) you need to patch your kernel. I don't think
> there is any distribution that ships kernels pre-patched with this
> patch, but I may be wrong on this one.
Got a URI for the patch?
Cheers,
Muli
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