jimzak wrote: > 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 Thanks for an update. Did you consider eSata ? Speeds are compatible and it is an older technology, probably more stable. I'm using eSata on mine without any driver issues (all linux).
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