[X4U] Re: Duplicating?

[Jon]

John-

I don't regard $69 for an empty box as particularly cheap. And, while
Firewire 400 may be, in practice, faster than USB2 (though I'd like to
see a citation that shows this), I wonder if the difference would be  
sig-
nificant for most of us.

A caution for anyone looking for an enclosure. Note that the spare
drives that many of us have lying around are ATA/IDE drives - parallel
interfaces - whereas almost all of the available new enclosures are
for serial ATA drives. Your links are all for SATA enclosures.

Happy holidays.

Jon

On Dec 18, 2008,  John Baltutis <baltwo at san.rr.com> wrote:

> FW 400 is 40-50% faster than USB 2. Ext FW enclosures are  
> relatively cheap. See
> this one for example:
> <http://www.macally.com/EN/Product/ArticleShow.asp?ArticleID=215>.  
> Others are
> at
> <http://www.macally.com/EN/Product/?BigClassName=Drive% 
> 20Enclosures&SmallClassName=3.5 >
> Since I don't have any USB ext HDs to experiment with, I can't tell  
> you if a
> USB created clone would boot a machine if put into an FW enclosure,  
> but I doubt
> it. Bottom-line on backups/clones: they're useless unless you boot  
> with them
> and test them. Waiting for your HD to fail and then finding out the
> backup/clone won't work is worst than painful.

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