[PLUG] RAID over usb-storage?

Russell Senior seniorr at aracnet.com
Sun Oct 16 17:40:49 UTC 2005


>>>>> "Ed" == Ed Sawicki <ed at alcpress.com> writes:

Ed> Flash drives generally have limited "durability" - about 10
Ed> million write operations. You wouldn't want to use them in
Ed> applications that are write intensive.

The potential application was as a lightweight, compact, portable
backup device.  But kind of expensive.  A DVD burner, if reliable
enough, would have similar capacity much more inexpensively, although
possibly much slower too.  As far as I know, you can't rsync to a DVD
burner! 


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