On 10/05/2017 02:29 AM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 4 October 2017, Richard Shaw sent: >> Anybody have some success stories they can share? Ideas? > > I did, long ago, use a portable hard drive, with a straight > installation onto it, through a firewire connection into a friend's > Mac. > > A hard drive, or SSD these days, would seem better than flash drives, > they're notorious for quick death. SSDs die quickly, too, with little or no warning (had to replace at least 10 in various Macbooks over the years--glad we had backups!) > I don't know how well that kind of thing would work through USB into > any computer, though. My experience with USB is that it's not good for > continual and prolonged sessions. It nearly always hiccups. Running a system via USB is, well, awful. Firewire, thunderbolt or ESATA would be far better. There are a lot of ESATA drives out there...not so many systems that have ESATA ports, unfortunately. My Dell laptop has ESATA and I always add an ESATA card to my desktops for just such use or to plug in ye ol' backup drive. My backup routine is to back up to rotating media on ESATA once a month, then unplug it and put it somewhere safe. Nightly, in the wee hours, I back up to a couple of NAS devices. Yes, I'm marginally paranoid about backups. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - 500: Internal Fortune Cookie Error - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
