8-TB Hard Drive: Doable on my Win 7 Box?

On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 22:11:08 -0300, pjp
wrote:


For backups and not "real time" stuff I see nothing wrong with USB
external drives even when only USB2 spec.


Ditto! I don't even care how long backups to them take, since I'm
either sleeping or doing something else at the same time.

Ken Blake wrote:
On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 22:11:08 -0300, pjp
wrote:


For backups and not "real time" stuff I see nothing wrong with USB
external drives even when only USB2 spec.


Ditto! I don't even care how long backups to them take, since I'm
either sleeping or doing something else at the same time.

That's a "style different".

I back some things up in real time (no sleeping), just before an experiment.

A backup takes 10 minutes, as long as decent transfer rates
are available. Even transferring across GbE is slightly slower,
and a local backup is better.

My USB3 enclosures are every bit as good as a SATA connection,
and that's because I don't use SSDs for backups. The USB3
enclosure isn't always plugged into a "native" port, and the limit
then tends to be in the 200MB/sec ballpark. And that's where some
of the hard drives are as well.

My main problem with night-time backups, is automation. And
I've not wasted the time to, say, script backups for the entire
room. I could go to sleep alright, but only one disk would
get backed up. In the old days, I had 20 partitions automated,
so one click of the button (in Retrospect) and everything in
the machine would get backed up. I don't have anything like
that now. Backups are one disk at a time.

Paul