What the hell is eSATA and where can I get cable?

[Daniel ~]

Originally Posted by booman

Probably because an ATA expansion card is dedicated to the hard-drives as opposed to the on-board chip that has to compete with all the other on-board stuff.

Cabling arrived yesterday, very easy pass through off the PCI slots. Connected to two Sata ports from the Motherboard and I now have a two Sata to e-Sata connections. Ran a sector by sector and cut 1and 1/2 hours of my back up and verify time using USB connects....":O}

[Daniel ~]

Many thanks to all, my first Sata experience! It really helps knowing I have friends in knowledgeable places...":O}

[robbie]

Spent some money... saved some time!!
Good stuff!

[fantomfreq]

Originally Posted by Daniel ~

But if it does it requires that I do the restore, then restore each incremental one at a time in order... to time consuming for me...LOL

You see I back up at night so as long as I get a good one not to much else matters as far as time to run, just time to set up...yes?":O}

Ah, but that's the good part. The program that I've used just overwrites old files and puts the new ones in there... the backup is fully bootable if required.

Of course, at night backups work fine as well.

[Daniel ~]

Ah! But is it idiot proof as mine HAS TO BE? ":O}

[fantomfreq]

Originally Posted by Daniel ~

Ah! But is it idiot proof as mine HAS TO BE? ":O}

Hey, I'm all for the 'if it works for you, that's all you need' strategy. Sounds like your current backup solution is exactly what you're looking for.

[MUff1N]

Yea, SATA is the shat man! I love the small connectors compared to the ribbon styled old IDE drives.
I absolutely could not live without my Acronis True Image backup program.
I LOVE it!!!
Takes me all of 4 minutes to do a backup of my OS partition & that includes Verifying the backup archive upon completion.

[Daniel ~]

Originally Posted by fantomfreq

Hey, I'm all for the 'if it works for you, that's all you need' strategy. Sounds like your current backup solution is exactly what you're looking for.

Now it sounds like you have the better software and don't want to share!! ":O}