[wellylug] External IDE to USB drive enclosure

[Peter Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Dobbs [mailto:jamie.dobbs at orcon.net.nz]
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 June 2005 2:18 p.m.
> To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] External IDE to USB drive enclosure
> 
> 
> > Yeha, only problem is there is no real place to stick the card..
> > you see the main machine it will be used in, is a Laptop, and it was
> > brought in about 2003 so does not have USB2 :(
> 
> You could always chuck a PCCARD/PCMCIA USB2 adapter into the 
> laptop, USB2
> is basically a _must_ if you want to use it with external 
> storage devices.
> Unless of course you enjoy watching grass grow or paint dry. :D

Here's a good example - back up 9G to an external 40G 2.5" hard drive from
an older Toshiba lappie using (probably) USB 1 - nearly 4 hours.
Restore the same data to a new HP -  less than half an hour. Both ends are
windows boxes (2000 and XP Pro) and the backup program was the standard
Windows backup 
Peter