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MikeEby
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Nashou66
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akajester
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that is cool. although Im not sure what advantage this has over a regular usb drive. Less "kits" to have laying around. Only now you have bare drives around that could get static shocked or caked with dust. we thought about getting this in the office to image hard drives, but it's so much quicker over the network without having to remove the drives.
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greg_mitch
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I bought the eSATA and USB2.0 version awhile back when I swapped out my computers. Very handy.
Don't waste your money on the eSATA version. Although it is faster you have to reboot between HDD swaps to get your PC to recognize it and all you have do for USB is turn it off and then back on again with the new drive.
USB 2.0 is plenty fast for me.
Definitely recommend if you have a bunch of SATA drives sitting around.
Too bad it doesnt take IDE drives though.
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Mark_A_W
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Ooo....err I'd beg to differ..
USB is fine for small drives. But if you need to copy a terabyte over, it's much, much faster over SATA or eSATA.
And you can hotswap SATA, but it is a bit hit and miss - I do reboot.
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greg_mitch
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| Mark_A_W wrote: | Ooo....err I'd beg to differ..
USB is fine for small drives. But if you need to copy a terabyte over, it's much, much faster over SATA or eSATA.
And you can hotswap SATA, but it is a bit hit and miss - I do reboot. |
YMMV but all three PC's in my house fail to recognize it after turning it off and back on. If I have it off when I turn on my PC and try to turn it on isn't recognized.
USB 2.0 is just easier to deal with.
Obviously, if you are transferring over a whole TB it would be faster at 3.0Gbps but who copies that large of file that often? Maybe people do it more than me.
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