Digital BW, The Print

You can also find in many higher end boxes available power and sata
connection already available to add an additional drive OUT the box. Just
get a nice little fan to keep it cool. It will look like another INTERNAL
drive in every way so hot swapping is out but you can do a power off and on
if you need to switch it out during the day.  I have tried the Nexstar
external swap station and I think I lost a drive because of bad power
connections - off and on and off and on.. 

 

Eric Neilsen

4101 Commerce Street, Suite 9

Dallas, TX 75226

214-827-8301

 

www.ericneilsenphotography.com

SKYPE ejprinter

 

From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul
Roark
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 9:34 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] OT - Laptop and cloud image editing?

 

  

I borrowed a Thermaltake BlakX (see
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/storage.aspx for the current version)
external drive bay to access my old drive. The old drive appears to
physically work, with the caveat that I can't enter the PW to get to my
user data; so it's useless. I also notice that the drive gets very hot.

What is the view of these external drive bays. It would seem to cut the
cost in half compared to buying the small external backup drives. Good
third party backup software seems to be part of the formula. The BlakX
drive bays still suffer from the slow USB connection. I suppose when
Thunderbolt is more universal they will go to that connection as an
alternative. If so, that might make the backups made today much easier to
use in the future (unlike the small backup drives that will be stuck with
their USB connections).

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

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