On 14/07/2018 14:50, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 14/07/18 13:59, newshound wrote:
On 14/07/2018 13:21, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 14/07/18 11:53, Theo wrote:
GB wrote:
On 13/07/2018 22:56, Graham. wrote:
Ebay item 123188037792Â* 99 pence inc free postage from China.

Nooooooooooooooo! That's for 2.5" drives. But, it's bloody cheap,
isn't
it. Might get one to keep in stock.

It's probably better to invest another quid in a USB 3.0 version:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-3-0-t...r/132670918384

since USB 2.0 is likely to be a bottleneck on most modern drives.

For 3.5" drives you can get adaptors like this:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-3-0-T...R/232780523602

but you're probably better off with a case that also handles power,
unless
you're willing to fish around the inside of your PC for a spare SATA
power
connector.

Theo

I dunno why he doesnt just mount te damned thing inside his PC and be
done with it.

Franly investng time and effort to read an onbsolete drive more than
once, to get the data off, is not in my list of cool hip ways to
spend my life

External drivees are available at very low prices. If your network is
too slow to move data round on it. A Gigabit network is comparable
with some USB stuff


Agree with you about faffing around with obsolete stuff, but the *one*
argument for having a backup drive not permanently connected is that
it saves you from nasty ransomeware that quietly scrambles all your FATs.

Well I dont have any FATS that can get scrambled ...BUT thats not true
if that drive happens to be connected at the time

Not sure if ransomware works on NAS either...


Of course it does..
recent ransomware encrypts the files as they are written so they are
unreadable even if they are stored on a NAS.

Its why you need backups from one NAS to another where the machine with
the ransomware on can't access the second NAS.

Then you can roll back to before the file was encrypted.