[PLUG-TALK] Back Up Medium Change

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:27:28 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:

>    I see that ENU has some huge drives for very moderate prices; I need to
> learn if SATA (or SATA2) will work in a USB external enclosure.

Yes, but there are USB enclosures and there are USB enclosures. I have
two and I assumed that I would be able to put the Jaunty hard disk from
my laptop into one of them as I installed new distros on a new hard
disk in the laptop. Turns out the hard disk from the computer is SATA
but the enclosures I have are not SATA enclosures. I checked and I can
get a SATA USB enclosure for $20 or so, but I decided it would be
faster and cheaper just to use the Ultrabay adapter that normally holds
my 500 GB backup disks.

So if you buy a USB enclosure make sure it is SATA; most are not.

USB is not as fast as some other options, but it is cheap. And if you
do your backups overnight as I do, who cares if it takes several hours?