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In article <g2u1ne5vka0tp683kikjectdppqirtdcfp@4ax.com>, Buck
<Buck@Scanners.Inc> wrote:
> I'm slowly transferring
> to external drives from CD/DVD's. More so because my drive doesn't
> always want to work correctly, it has a mind of it's own.
By far the best way to do this is to use an eSATA drive dock (external
SATA) like a Thermaltake BlacX or an Orico or a Newer Tech Voyager Q.
And that, in turn, works best when you use SATA straight through, end
to end, without hassling with any silly conversion to and from USB
(because in this case, USB is tits on a boar hog; SATA itself does
everything *way* better). So you just put an eSATA PCIe card in your
desktop computer (Sonnet Tech is a good brand), or an equivalent eSATA
Expresscard in your notebook computer, find a dock that has an eSATA
port (ignoring any silly USB port that's also included), and away you
go at 3 or 6 gigabits per second straight through (depending on the
particular hardware ... of course you should try to choose everything
to go for 6, also known as SATA-III, but if the computer is old, that
might not be feasible and you might be stuck with 3 Gb/s, aka SATA-II,
which is still better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick).
I learned this valuable lesson several years ago from a good blog post
in a Mac blog, a post that was titled "Kill the spindle monster",
meaning spindle after spindle after spindle of DVD-R discs. Or even
BD. Throw 'em all overboard! Holy shit, Batman, what a huge PITA that
used to be, having to deal with all of that puny disc-at-a-time stuff.
I'm so glad that's over. :-> I now do backups a terabyte at a time,
and it all takes far *less* time than hassling with the DVDs did,
so I do backups more often than I used to do with optical. I have even
skipped BD entirely: have never bought a Blu-Ray drive and never will.
I'm sure it's fine for videos, but for backups and archiving it's
almost as obsolete as DVD-R.
Unfortunately, this can be somewhat expensive at the beginning. :-(
However, my approach has been, first, to splurge on the essential PCIe
card and eSATA drive dock, and second, going forward from there, to try
to budget some amount every couple of months, for as long as necessary,
to buy at least one new drive brick, looking for sale prices, as you
said. So far I've got about a dozen of 'em and I have never looked
back to the ancient optical method except to fart in its general
direction. This stuff is also perfect for keeping one set of backups
off-site to insure against fire, flood, burglary. The drive docks can
take both 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch drives. Also SSDs. So it's even
feasible to keep a complete set of backups in a bank's safe-deposit box
if you rent one, no matter how small it is.
For the benefit of anyone who doesn't use this stuff and hasn't seen it
in action: You don't bother with external cases and power supplies and
bridge controllers, again not at all like the olden days when we used
to pay hundreds of dollars for an "external drive" package with an
astronomical markup. The eSATA drive dock, or toaster, takes the place
of any number of those. So it's less expensive because once you have
the initial setup, you're buying only the raw (internal) drive bricks.
You pop 'em into and out of the toaster as necessary (of course being
careful not to static-zap anything; always ground yourself first ...
and yes, you do the swapping with the toaster's power switched *off*
or you'll be sorry), and you store the bricks however and wherever you
want. They are more fragile than optical media so they need some
babying (climate control and protection against physical shocks, and
keep 'em away from electric motors and audio speakers), but OTOH they
also hold many hundreds of optical discs' worth of stuff per drive.
Way awesome.
Ain't high-tech great? (I mean, aside from slaughtering the biosphere,
which is merely a trivial detail that can be ignored for now. As Dave
Barry observed, "No problem! I'll be dead!")
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