Re: [Hampshire] (OT) NAS and USB3 connections

2013-05-01 Thread Martin N
Hello, So i picked up an icy box 3640su3 4 HDs enclosure which is just JBOD with e-SATA and usb3 support. Works reasonably well apart from the daft lack of intake holes at the front with a fan at the back sucking air in through any crevice it can. The door is best left open to allow some air

Re: [Hampshire] (OT) NAS and USB3 connections

2013-04-22 Thread Daniel Llewellyn
On 22 April 2013 18:07, Martin N wrote: > Hello, > > At 17:08 22/04/2013, you wrote: > >> On 2013-04-22 13:00, >> > >hampshire-**requ...@mailman.lug.org.ukwrote: >> >> >> On 21 April 2013 17:34, Peter B. <pety** >> r...@gma

Re: [Hampshire] (OT) NAS and USB3 connections

2013-04-22 Thread Martin N
Hello, At 17:08 22/04/2013, you wrote: On 2013-04-22 13:00, hampshire-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: On 21 April 2013 17:34, Peter B. <pet...@gmail.com> wrote: As far as I know usb 2.0 maxes out at 30mbps usb 3.0 100

Re: [Hampshire] (OT) NAS and USB3 connections

2013-04-22 Thread Stephen Davies
On 2013-04-22 13:00, hampshire-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: On 21 April 2013 17:34, Peter B. > wrote: As far as I know usb 2.0 maxes out at 30mbps usb 3.0 100mbps for local data transfer. I think you're confusing things here. USB2 runs at up to 480Mbps raw

Re: [Hampshire] (OT) NAS and USB3 connections

2013-04-22 Thread Jon Wilks
I have been using pcbackup to backup 4 desktops ultimately onto an external USB drive for the past 2 years with no problems. I would admit however that I would not recommend this for anything more than the trivial backups I do.I will also add that I have bare metal backups for the hosts I care abou

Re: [Hampshire] (OT) NAS and USB3 connections

2013-04-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:30:06PM +0100, Chris Dennis wrote: > On 22/04/13 14:44, Andy Smith wrote: > >And yet I would still choose storage over a 1Gig Ethernet as opposed > >to over USB3. > > Why? :) > > There seems to be a lot of aversion on this list to USB-connected > hard drives. W

Re: [Hampshire] (OT) NAS and USB3 connections

2013-04-22 Thread Chris Dennis
On 22/04/13 14:44, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 05:38:55PM +0100, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: On 21 April 2013 17:34, Peter B. wrote: As far as I know usb 2.0 maxes out at 30mbps usb 3.0 100mbps for local data transfer. I think you're confusing things here. USB2 runs at up t

Re: [Hampshire] (OT) NAS and USB3 connections

2013-04-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 05:38:55PM +0100, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: > On 21 April 2013 17:34, Peter B. wrote: > > As far as I know usb 2.0 maxes out at 30mbps usb 3.0 100mbps for local > > data transfer. > > > I think you're confusing things here. USB2 runs at up to 480Mbps raw line > speed,

Re: [Hampshire] (OT) NAS and USB3 connections

2013-04-21 Thread Martin N
Hello, At 20:11 19/04/2013, you wrote: Hi Martin, On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 09:00:15PM +0100, Martin N wrote: > Like this NAS: > http://www.dabs.com/products/zyxel-nsa325-2-bay-power-plus-nas-diskless--1-6ghz-cpu--7Z67.html?src=2 > > The USB connections though i mentioned as being used to get d

Re: [Hampshire] (OT) NAS and USB3 connections

2013-04-21 Thread Daniel Llewellyn
On 21 April 2013 17:34, Peter B. wrote: > As far as I know usb 2.0 maxes out at 30mbps usb 3.0 100mbps for local > data transfer. > I think you're confusing things here. USB2 runs at up to 480Mbps raw line speed, and USB3 runs at up to 5Gbps. -- Daniel Llewellyn -- Please post to: Hampshire@m

Re: [Hampshire] (OT) NAS and USB3 connections

2013-04-21 Thread Peter B.
As far as I know usb 2.0 maxes out at 30mbps usb 3.0 100mbps for local data transfer. The speed iv think u r talking about will b relative to the adapter transfer Loss etc I think and the speed of the cable u r using to transfer itv from there. Also consider if u r using wireless it will b slower s

Re: [Hampshire] (OT) NAS and USB3 connections

2013-04-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Martin, On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 09:00:15PM +0100, Martin N wrote: > Like this NAS: > http://www.dabs.com/products/zyxel-nsa325-2-bay-power-plus-nas-diskless--1-6ghz-cpu--7Z67.html?src=2 > > The USB connections though i mentioned as being used to get data on > to the internal HDs > so I am wond

[Hampshire] (OT) NAS and USB3 connections

2013-04-18 Thread Martin N
Hello, I am upgrading a 640gig hard drive for a 1.5tb but want to have the 640 and 500 gig i have spare connected to my desktop PC. Disk docks seem to have one hard drive capacity only apart from an icy dock which has two slots. I was wondering if i could just use a NAS and attach it to the