I make a clone of my Seagate 160gb sata drive to a 160gb Hitachi(cheaper but slower than the seagate) once a week. Since I have both WinXp and Linux on the same drive I just boot a Knoppix CD and use dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb It takes a tad over 50 minutes for the whole process. Extremely easy to do and gives you a bootable disk that's ready to go in case the seagate fails.
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Backing up a single 11GB file (same SATA hardware as noted in my post above):
NTBackup: 17 min, 30 sec = 10.5 MegaBytes/Second
XCopy: 4 min = 46 MegBytes/Second
I imagine that copying this single 11GB file (an NTBackup .BKF file) would represent the very fastest transfer rate that's possible...not having to deal with separate files and folders, indexing, etc.
Is that the included utility from Veritas circa 2001? Personally, I only ever use it to do the system state and then only for the side benefit of updating the registry repair in case that is needed to fall back to. You may want to consider Ghost or True Image or such.
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I checked for a brand or maker on this abismal external SATA drive case. It has some nice design features. The internal PCB had perfectly aligned SATA connectors for power and data:
E1
And, this is how the drive mates the front panel. It is held by 4 screws on thebottom:
E2
Lastly, here is the front panel It comes with it's own power brick and provides 12 vdc and 5 vdc through this PS/2 type connector.
E3
There is no brand on it. I got it well over a year ago, and couldn't use it because of constant DWEs.
I can't recommend this POS.
E1
And, this is how the drive mates the front panel. It is held by 4 screws on thebottom:
E2
Lastly, here is the front panel It comes with it's own power brick and provides 12 vdc and 5 vdc through this PS/2 type connector.
E3
There is no brand on it. I got it well over a year ago, and couldn't use it because of constant DWEs.
I can't recommend this POS.
I've done a little test connecting a Seagate 320GB 7200.10 SATA drive in a Rosewill enclosure to my internal SATA connector. Here's my write-up, including some screenshots of HD-Tach results comparing internal SATA, eSATA enclosure-to-internal-SATA-port, and USB2 external enclosure:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...?catid=27&threadid=1917396&STARTPAGE=1
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...?catid=27&threadid=1917396&STARTPAGE=1
(This is a copy of a posting I placed elsewhere on AnandTech's General Forum)
I saw a very interesting internal unit by http://granitedigital.com/. RebateMonger (above) put me onto this.
They provide a shell that you mount in one of your PC's 5 1/4" slots. You then connect a SATA power and SATA data cable to the back of the shell.
You then mount your SATA drive in one of their trays.
Whenever you need to do a backup, you just slide the tray mounted drive into the shell and it engages connectors for SATA data and power and becomes fully functional.
The unit has no internal electronics and runs at full SATA speed, something that tends to put it well above most NAS units.
Unlike the NAS units, you do not have a dangling data cable to hook up, and you do not have a power "dongle" to plug in and drape across your desk.
It is about as simple and slick as one could want.
If you are absolutely bent on the NAS approach, Granite Digital does make external units as well that will run at full SATA speeds.
My unit is somewhere between there and here in the hand of UPS. I am getting the internal SATA unit. Shortly I should have a pair of Raptor SATA drives coming my way as well.
I saw a very interesting internal unit by http://granitedigital.com/. RebateMonger (above) put me onto this.
They provide a shell that you mount in one of your PC's 5 1/4" slots. You then connect a SATA power and SATA data cable to the back of the shell.
You then mount your SATA drive in one of their trays.
Whenever you need to do a backup, you just slide the tray mounted drive into the shell and it engages connectors for SATA data and power and becomes fully functional.
The unit has no internal electronics and runs at full SATA speed, something that tends to put it well above most NAS units.
Unlike the NAS units, you do not have a dangling data cable to hook up, and you do not have a power "dongle" to plug in and drape across your desk.
It is about as simple and slick as one could want.
If you are absolutely bent on the NAS approach, Granite Digital does make external units as well that will run at full SATA speeds.
My unit is somewhere between there and here in the hand of UPS. I am getting the internal SATA unit. Shortly I should have a pair of Raptor SATA drives coming my way as well.
The case could still be used though... just remove the PCB and get a power adapter or change the connector... sod the switch... or get a different power brick which has a switch and the correct SATA plug.
One of the newer ASUS boards brings one SATA connector out amid the ethernet/USB/etc on the back of the board. It could be the wave of the future.
I tested my 300GB (60gb free space) Maxtor Diamondmax 10 SATA hd in a Vantec Nexstar3 eSATA/USB2 case first with the eSATA connection (to an internal SATA->eSATA bracket connected to my mobo) and then with the USB2 connector. Here are the HDTACH quickbench results, eSATA on top and USB2 beneath that.
I've seen the eSATA connector on the Asus P5W DH Deluxe and the Asus P5WDG2 WS Professional both conroe boards, not sure if its on any others though.
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