> From: jrdiii@comcast.net
>
> Regarding external enclosures: I've had success with the AMS
> Venus line. There are models for PATA and SATA, USB,
> Firewire, etc.. I always use the ones with internal fans;
> heat's hard on bits. I get a bare 250Gb 3.5" Seagate drive,
> drop it in, and it's ready to roll in minutes. The drive is
> secured in the enclosure with screws, so is quite secure.
Yep, those 3.5" Venus enclosures are nice ones. I have a couple of them.
I like their 2.5" enclosures too, but the one guy on NewEgg was right - the
drive isn't securely fastened inside them the way it is with their 3.5"
enclosures.
> I keep one of these at home and one in the office for
> duplicate backups (using TrueImage). Partitioning the 250G
> into 4x60Gb works about right for keeping four successive
> backups of the 100Gb drive on my T60 (less than full drive +
> compression means 60Gb is usually plenty).
Do you mean mean literally *partitioning* the drive? Wouldn't it be better
to use one big NTFS partition and create a directory for each of your
backups? That way the space can be allocated flexibly.
Also, I like to make fewer full backups and more incrementals. True Image
can make an incremental backup very fast - as little as ten minutes - so you
can back up more often and also have more of a selection of previous states
to restore to or pull files from. If you put just two or three full backups
on the drive, you'll have room for lots of incrementals. That works nicely
for me anyway.
-Mike
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