- Sep 29, 2004
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I'm looking into upgrading my PC and want to ask about backup drives via USB or possibly a network. I'll be using the drive only to ghost an image of my PC (using Ghost).
USB options (NOT GOING TO HAPPEN:thumbsdown
:
If I go with a 1 TB drive I think I'll be getting a Western Digital. Probably this:
1 TB western Digital for $120
AS for 1.5 TB, I have only a few options:
1.5TB options: Now the cheapest one sounds like a piece of garbage according to the reviews.
Please check my EDIT below.
Network options (via external enclosure):thumbsup::
This is probably the way to go, but if I do this, I need to get an external enclosure and internal hard drive as two parts. I know very little about this option so I have to ask, what is the way to go? I can pick out a hard drive, but I know next to nothing about external enclosures.
Some networked enclosures
I'd couple an enclosure with one of these:
1 TB and 1.5 TB internal drives - shooting for the 1.5 TB seagate
Cost:
Cost is a big issue. I want to keep the entire package under $150 but I will go up to $200 if there is a good reason.
EDIT:
I did some research and on a good day, hard drives will transfer 33-40 MByte/s via USB. This is a real world number.
Some Math, lets use 20 MByte/s to provide a cushion:
20 MByte/s = 1200 MByte/minute = 72000 MByte/hour = 72 GByte/hour
So, for 500 GByte, that is 500/72 hours or about 7 hours
There can be other issues with USB ports that may cause headaches though like IRQs and other devices eating up USB bandwidth (keyboards, etc). I have a Kodak docking station that might cause grief. I might get 3 MByte/s which would be a crazy 70 hour duration for image creation.
USB options (NOT GOING TO HAPPEN:thumbsdown
:If I go with a 1 TB drive I think I'll be getting a Western Digital. Probably this:
1 TB western Digital for $120
AS for 1.5 TB, I have only a few options:
1.5TB options: Now the cheapest one sounds like a piece of garbage according to the reviews.
Please check my EDIT below.
Network options (via external enclosure):thumbsup::
This is probably the way to go, but if I do this, I need to get an external enclosure and internal hard drive as two parts. I know very little about this option so I have to ask, what is the way to go? I can pick out a hard drive, but I know next to nothing about external enclosures.
Some networked enclosures
I'd couple an enclosure with one of these:
1 TB and 1.5 TB internal drives - shooting for the 1.5 TB seagate
Cost:
Cost is a big issue. I want to keep the entire package under $150 but I will go up to $200 if there is a good reason.
EDIT:
I did some research and on a good day, hard drives will transfer 33-40 MByte/s via USB. This is a real world number.
Some Math, lets use 20 MByte/s to provide a cushion:
20 MByte/s = 1200 MByte/minute = 72000 MByte/hour = 72 GByte/hour
So, for 500 GByte, that is 500/72 hours or about 7 hours
There can be other issues with USB ports that may cause headaches though like IRQs and other devices eating up USB bandwidth (keyboards, etc). I have a Kodak docking station that might cause grief. I might get 3 MByte/s which would be a crazy 70 hour duration for image creation.
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