external storage for linux

[David Vincent]

Sean Carolan wrote:
>> which leads me to ask if i put two 500gb drives in two different 
>> external enclosures and hook those up to two usb ports on a machine, can 
>> i raid-1 them?  mounting them to the same spot is easy with uuids etc so 
>> without trying it i think it should work.  maybe someone out there 
>> already knows and could offer some advice.
> 
> Yes, you can do this with USB 2.0 but transfer speeds may be slower than 
> with internal drives.

hehe, good point.  happily transfer speeds are not critical to me and my 
little home network (i get just horrible throughput on my raid-5!  three 
ide drives working at ata-33 speeds - ugh!)

>> how about external NAS systems?
> 
> I use a Kurobox with one internal drive, and one external drive.   I 
> regularly sync the internal drive to the external one.  There may be 
> other NAS systems out there that would work for you.  I like the kuro 
> because it's small, uses very little power and is almost silent.

i'll take a peek.  thanks.

-d