external hard drive

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Hello everyone,
Hope this is the right place to ask for some dialog. I am interested
an external hard drive to use for storage and also to back up my
entire hard drives using either Acronis or Microsoft's live one care.
I have a main computer (sata) with Vista 32 bit and an IBM laptop with
xp pro and two other desktops, one with xp pro and xp home. And I read
about externals such as Agent with software and would like to know
would just a reg. big external with USB work for me and if I had a
real big problem and had to reinstall would the fact that the back up
is on a USB make a difference. I hope I made myself clear and provided
enough info.
Thanks in advance
 
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Sog said:
Hello everyone,
Hope this is the right place to ask for some dialog. I am interested
an external hard drive to use for storage and also to back up my
entire hard drives using either Acronis or Microsoft's live one care.
I have a main computer (sata) with Vista 32 bit and an IBM laptop with
xp pro and two other desktops, one with xp pro and xp home. And I read
about externals such as Agent with software and would like to know
would just a reg. big external with USB work for me and if I had a
real big problem and had to reinstall would the fact that the back up
is on a USB make a difference. I hope I made myself clear and provided
enough info.
Thanks in advance
Click to expand...
USB is a bit slower ....
 
Sog said:
I am interested an external hard drive to use for storage and
also to back up my entire hard drives using either Acronis or
Microsoft's live one care.
I have a main computer (sata) with Vista 32 bit and an IBM
laptop with xp pro and two other desktops, one with xp pro
and xp home. And I read about externals such as Agent with
software and would like to know would just a reg. big external
with USB work for me and if I had a real big problem and had
to reinstall would the fact that the back up is on a USB make a
difference.
Click to expand...

Since your desktops have SATA, you could use an external
HD enclosure with either a SATA cable to it or an eSATA
cable. Kingwin makes external enclosures with built-in fans
for both SATA and USB controllers:
http://kingwin.com/jt35eubk.asp .

You can get adapter strips with external SATA or eSATA
connectors here:
http://www.firewire-1394.com/external-sata-solutions.htm

You can get eSATA cables here:
http://www.firewire-1394.com/sata-cables-shielded.htm
and here:
http://svc.com/esata-cable.html

Using SATA for you HDs, you get the higher speed of
SATA plus the ability to boot from the external HDs.
Connecting a SATA cable to your laptop depends on
whether your laptop has an external SATA or eSATA
port.

*TimDaniels*
 
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