The Mediasonic hard drive enclosure has really helped decrease the complexity of my server. However, it has not been without a few glitches. The main one being that it's firmware is finicky about USB 3. Initially the enclosure only connected to the server laptop at USB 2 speeds which really makes transfers and backup exponentially longer.
I updated the laptop BIOS and found one setting for USB 3 that could be varied (I cannot remember what it was, and I don't want to reboot the laptop to find out what that setting was because it's a shoutcast server also). I changed that setting and since that time the enclosure has connected consistently at USB 3. The setting change was not intuitive. I just go lucky. I have been using a USB 3 single hard drive docking station as a backup device, and I adopted '\"Backup Maker\"' (https://www.ascomp.de/en/) as as my backup tool for the following reasons: 1. Wizard setup of saved backup profiles for each drive 2. Incremental backup 3. Freeware (with a nag at the end of each backup.) So once the complete backup of each drive was completed, subsequent incremental backups take only a few minutes once a week. I'm also implementing a new server computer as per another thread which has led to whole new series of technical challenges (lesson so far: don't buy HP laptops). Jim http://zzzone.net http://have-a-nice-day.org http://www.last.fm/user/zzzoneDOTnet http://somethingsomethingsomething.net dBpoweramp Cisco E4200 SBS 7.8 - i7 laptop - Win 7 64bit 3 Booms, 2 Radio, 1 Touch, 1 iPod Touch w/digital dock 2 controllers, various tablets/phones Various apps including iPeng, Logitech Android, etc. 'Library' (http://zzzone.net/photo/2009/music1.jpg): 231,000+ FLAC/MP3 files - 12 TB HD Onkyo TX-NR818, KEF Q300/Q200/iQ30, Outlaw LFM-1 Plus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jimzak's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17592 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100561 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
