I highly recommend **against** using any protocol conversion in the
mix "USB to eSATA" or whatever.

True eSATA is fine - obviously the quality of the hardware is an
issue. Firewire is also OK but getting rarer these days.

Internal SATA to eSATA should also not be a problem, not really doing
any conversion there.

Opening drive bays are really cheap and easy, just protect the drive
well for transport.

There are also eSATA "docking stations" that take a bare drive
standing up on the desktop.

Careful about hot swapping, all the hardware in the chain, as well as
the drivers on the OS need to support it, and obviously make sure
nothing's accessing the drive and dismount first.


Unless your data isn't important, then do whatever you like. . .

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk> 
wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 16:38 -0500, Zach La Celle wrote:
>
>> Regarding some other responses, I'll be sure to try eSATA next time
>> instead of USB to see if that tends to be more stable.  I could also use
>> internal drives, I suppose...the real reason we're using external disks
>> is so that we can replace them and store them off-site every once in a
>> while.  Using a pre-packaged drive was simply more convenient.
>
> I use one of these external usb/eSATA -> SATA docks, they are about £20
> in the UK and let you hot swap a SATA drive a bit like a tape.
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Startech-Esata-Sata-Dock-2-5-3-5/dp/B0026B8VR0/
>
>
>
> --
> Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk>
>
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