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6/26/12 at 1:30am

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I recently bought a new laptop, its hard drives are in RAID 0 (2x 500GB drives), I am buying a dedicated drive to maintain a back up image of my laptop and wondered if you guys and gals would share your opinion on the transfer method I should make my number one choice.

Thank you.
Chris

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6/26/12 at 1:33am

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ESATA has a max transfer of: 600MB
USB 3.0 has a max transfer of: 480MB

I would say ESATA.
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6/26/12 at 1:54am

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that was my thinking as well, you think it should be a safe bet that when restoring laptop from an image, the driver for the esata should take care of itself..

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6/26/12 at 3:57am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by chrisparkermedia

that was my thinking as well, you think it should be a safe bet that when restoring laptop from an image, the driver for the esata should take care of itself..

I think it would work but i suppose it depends on what software you use.

Edit:

Sorry i cant help much i havent actually used ESATA to back stuff up.

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