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