> You can get a cheap USB cable with adapters for IDE or SATA drives.
> They come in handy for situations like that even though they are slower
> than native sata.  That way you'd just build the new setup and hook the
> old drive back up via USB to copy the data you want back.

Yeah, I'd thought of that but it is about an order of magnitude slower
according to the speed tests I've done on my external drive that has
both USB and eSata.

Of course this is my home system so it does not matter so much.   When
it comes time to do the one at work it might matter - we'll see :-)



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