Mark Phillips wrote:
> I need to set up a backup drive(s) for several home machines. I want to 
> use external Sata drives. My older P4 machine has a PCI 2.2 bus, so I 
> need a recommendation for a Sata drive controller card for one or two 
> external Sata 2 drives. The card has to work with Debian and backuppc. 
> Also, a recommendation for 1 TB+ eSata drives.
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> Mark
> 

Do you really need the speed for backups? You might consider using USB2 
instead of eSATA. I have external backup drives configured mirrored 
(with software raid-1) on USB2. It works nicely. It's not as fast as 
eSATA would be, but it's adequate.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

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