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BillWoodruff wrote: If the specs/model# on the drives in the enclosures matched the ones sold bare-external, and the price was cheaper, I'd say you got a good deal. Perhaps a lucky bargain ?
I had bought a few WD Green drives before the USB3 enclosures started becoming popular (though they were smaller in capacity back then). I've never compared the specs side-by-side, but as far as they perform, I really can't tell the difference. The cheapest pair I bought at the same time went for CAD$140 each. They typically hover at around $160. By comparison, right now (I just checked) the same 4TB WD Green drive (without the enclosure) goes for $185. Somebody tell me how that makes any sense.
BillWoodruff wrote: I haven't thought about whether anything in the MyBook enclosure has any special hardware features, although my assumption it doesn't, that it's just a drive hooked up to a USB controller.
There's a small proprietary circuit board that hooks up to the back of the SATA drive with a few chips on it, which provides the USB connector on the side of the enclosure. When hooked up through this circuit board, Device Manager gives the drive a different ID than if hooked up directly through the drive's SATA port. I suspect this is why TrueCrypt thinks this isn't the same drive and refuses to mount it.
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My experience with Western Digital hard drives has been very good. I avoid Seagate drives like the plague; we have a RAID unit populated with Seagate drives that I've replaced 5 drives in it in four years.
Despite others' experience, I've also had good luck with Acronis. It's reasonable quick and I've never had a problem recovering data from a backup. The only caveat is I only do full-image backups with Acronis. My working file and 'incremental' backups go on a thumb drive.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Thanks, Gary,
I share the experience mentioned by many on this thread of having multiple failures using Seagate drives, and only one failure, over the years, with WD.
While I will carefully evaluate the bundled Acronis software included with the MyBook; I plan, now, to use the AOMEI software that OriginalGriff has written about, here.
My goal is to use the MyBook in pretty much the same way you described your use of an archival drive: to do full system-image back-ups (probably monthly), occasional move-to-archive file transfers of accumulated whatever.
How I might want to use the MyBook if I "go on the road" with it ... I haven't thought through yet.
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I've had a pair of 1 TB WD MyBook units running for a few years and have had no troubles whatsoever. Being USB drives, they're a bit on the slow side to access, but once connected, the transfers seem fair fast.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Do you accept a shareholding business?
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Me? Provided you don't call me late to dinner I'll accept almost anything.
Cash is always a better idea though.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I accept. Send it to me via telepathy please.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I believe there's enough evidence to accept that they exist, yes.
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I have done, yes, but past performance is not predictor of future
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Accept ... for what ?
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Every time I bring a girl over, you try to eat her! It's not fair!
Which movie?
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One Slice of Paris?
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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How to Cook Vol 10 : Tennie flanks
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Young Dracula - The College Years
veni bibi saltavi
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Should'a been "Little Shop Of Horrors"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Lick[^]
Geek code v 3.12 {
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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The Michael Douglas Movie
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Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares.
Try Grapple for Android, it has a naked pixel guy in it!
Also, loads of blood and some snakes.
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There is something about Mary?
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Young Hannibal.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Aside...
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in 1897, the general assembly of indiana enacted bill no. 246, stating that pi was just plain 4.
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Apparently my kid's high school algebra teacher thinks that 22/7 equals Pi and is therefore irrational. My kid and others tried to point out the error of her ways, but to no avail.
As you were.
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I bet you didn't know that if you keep on calculating the digits of pi, the fractional part eventually becomes a series of 1s and 0s. When this is put in a BITMAPFILEHEADER structure, you end up with a full-colour rendering of . In 3D.
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Pictures or... oh, forget it.
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