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Re: [OM] Strictly OT: System Crash

Subject: Re: [OM] Strictly OT: System Crash
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:54:45 -0700
On 6/8/2011 3:27 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Since the drive is 6 years old it may be PATA or SATA 1.  It might be
> difficult to locate such a drive since technology has already moved on
> to SATA 3.  There are SATA 2 drives that can throttle back to SATA 1
> rates but they are also getting hard to find.  I was searching for one
> for a friend several days ago and the only thing I could find was a 320
> GB refurbished Hitachi drive.

Perhaps I shouldn't have bit my tongue, after all. In Jim's situation, I'd be 
looking at buying a new, W7 machine. As 
you've pointed out, compatibility, both hardware and software, starts to become 
problematic after a while.

If I fall into any money, I'm thinking at least quad processor, 8 GB of RAM and 
a solid state primary drive. Hmmm, would 
that save me enough time to get a part time job and pay for the computer? Nah, 
I just waste it playing with images, 
reading, napping or nattering here. :-)

> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I use Acronis True Image 9.0 to clone my drives.  It's old software
> which runs fine on XP but later versions (when they changed to year
> numbers for release numbers) seem to be somewhat buggy.  You can still
> find 9.0 but you'll likely pay new prices for it.

The WD edition of Acronis I'm using seems to be a latish version of 10, and 
works fine on Vista.

> I think now that I'd try FOG<http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/>

Thanks for the link.

> It has good reviews but, being a free software foundation project, who knows 
> what
> the user interface is like.  It could be simple and easy to operate or
> could also be a bear.
>
> If you're cloning or backing up to SATA drives then the BlacX is a good
> solution.
> <<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153071&cm_re=blacx_docking_station-_-17-153-071-_-Product>>
>    Moose and I have them.  They come in USB only or USB/eSATA combo
> interfaces.  I suggest the latter although it costs a bit more than USB
> only.

Yup, works well for me. When I first got it, I could hot swap drives by 
rescanning in Storage Manager. Some upgrade or 
other appears to have killed that, so I do have to reboot anytime I plug in or 
turn on ANY eSATA drive or swap drives in 
the BlacX. Might or might not be particular to my hardware, though.

Moose
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