[ale] Need a big external drive quick. Suggestions?

[Greg Freemyer]

On 6/1/06, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Frankly, I would dump the USB idea and use a network (NAS/SAN)
> device/drive.  You can pick up a cheap NAS (enclosure + bios etc) for
> less than $100 at Microcenter or Frys.  Throw your hard drive in that
> and get your data backed up much faster.
>
> Even better, pop the top and drop the second drive in it if you can
> spare some downtime.
>
> -Jim P.

I'm not familiar with the cheap enclosures, but there is not a 1 TB
drive yet, so you have to have Raid 0 (stripping) support to get a TB.

Same problem with connecting it directly to the IDE chain.

Fry's also has a Buffalo NAS Server with a TB.  Why do you think that
would be faster?  I've never sent large volumes of data to a NAS
server, but I can get 4 GB/min to a SATA 150, 3 GB/min to a ATA/100,
and IIRC 2 GB/min to USB 2.

For all the above I'm doing a pure dd from the raw drive to a capture
file.  Same as I plan to do Saturday.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century