Hi spike,Quote from spike500:
I use Acronis to make disc images.
When i make CD's the write speed is 48x.
But if i make an imgae from 1 HD to another HD the write speed seems to be 48x also. Is this normal? I should think that from HD to HD the speed would be much higher.
A 5Gb image without compression needs 12 minutes to be made from HD to HD.
I have a Plextor CD reader/writer (48 speed), a Maxtor 80 Gb with 8 Mb cache (6Y080P0) and a Maxtor 60 Gb with 2 Mb cache (6Y060L0).
Quote from spike500:
I use Acronis to make disc images.
When i make CD's the write speed is 48x.
But if i make an imgae from 1 HD to another HD the write speed seems to be 48x also. Is this normal? I should think that from HD to HD the speed would be much higher.
A 5Gb image without compression needs 12 minutes to be made from HD to HD.
I have a Plextor CD reader/writer (48 speed), a Maxtor 80 Gb with 8 Mb cache (6Y080P0) and a Maxtor 60 Gb with 2 Mb cache (6Y060L0).
What you can do is choose the hard drive of your choice and enclose it an external enclosure available for this purpose. That way, you do not have to worry about whether a certain hard drive manufacturer has a commercially available USB/Firewire HDD of sufficient size to meet your needs. My preference is to buy these enclosures with both USB2 and firewire capabilities (see second link).Quote from CPTrader:
So what would you recommend for a good USB/FIREWIRE HDD?
Quote from gnome:
If you are using a 2nd HD, why not "clone" instead of image? Your 5G should be copied to the new HD in about 3 minutes with no compression... maybe longer if your computer is old.
spike,Quote from spike500:
My computer is 2 years old.
I was not sure that cloning was good if ever i have to put back my complete system to the C drive. I know that images work perfectly, but i never tried cloning.
Nononsense,
i didn't compress the images at all. This should be giging the best speed, but for some reason speed is low. Perhaps due to setting of Nero 5.5 that is used apparently to write the image.
PS i'm fine.
Works well. Buy a 'good' hard drive though. Look for low heat and noise on the specsheet. Reliability often goes hand in hand with these.Quote from Poncho:
What you can do is choose the hard drive of your choice and enclose it an external enclosure available for this purpose. That way, you do not have to worry about whether a certain hard drive manufacturer has a commercially available USB/Firewire HDD of sufficient size to meet your needs. My preference is to buy these enclosures with both USB2 and firewire capabilities (see second link).
here are two links :
http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=92
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=BROWSE&manufactory=1641&bop=and&page=2
I supposed that we were talking about 'external enclosures' with usb2/firewire interfaces as described by an earlier poster. Such enclosures are can be bought empty and accept to my knowledge only IDE interface disks.Quote from Bernard111:
Why IDE and not SATA for external enclosures? I have a couple of PCs that offers an external connections to SATA devices directly from the motherboard.
Quote from spike500:
My computer is 2 years old.
I was not sure that cloning was good if ever i have to put back my complete system to the C drive. I know that images work perfectly, but i never tried cloning.
Nononsense,
i didn't compress the images at all. This should be giging the best speed, but for some reason speed is low. Perhaps due to setting of Nero 5.5 that is used apparently to write the image.
PS i'm fine.
Quote from nononsense:
Of course you could operate a SATA disk externally, as long as you can somehow run your SATA cable up to your computer. (You will have to take care of power supply as wel.)