Re: On demand backup drive.

In alt.comp.hardware, on Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:13:46 -0500, Char Jackson
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:46:54 -0400, micky <[email protected]>
>wrote:
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>>I have to make my backing up more frequent. 
>>
>>Right now I use a double dock, with a 5 1/4" drive.  I bought one whose
>>advertising said it turned off when it wasn't getting input, but
>>afterwards, when I tried to get the software the ad said was needed,
>>someone there admitted there was no software and it didnt' do it!!!**
>>
>>Is there a 5 1/4" dock that will turn off when not in use. 
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>You probably mean a 3 1/2" drive, like a standard hard drive. CD/DVD drives
>are typically 5 1/4" wide, but hard drives haven't been that big in a long
>time.

You're right.  I was never very good with numbers.  (though I majored in
math in college.) 
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>
>>I have the impression that those 2 1/2" backup drives do indeed turn off
>>when I'm not backing up.  Do they?  All of them?  Any that you
>>recommend?  Any you recommend against? 
>>
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>>(I wanted the HDD image to be made to a 5 1/4 so if there were a

Oops.  I meant clone.  I was never very good with words, either. 

>>problem, I could just swap HDD's.  That would work, right?
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>If you're making a clone, your destination drive can hold exactly one copy
>of your source drive and you can boot from the clone if your source drive
>is/was bootable. (With exceptions.) If you instead create images, then you
>can place as many images on the destination drive as you have available
>space, but you generally can't boot from an image. Instead, you'd have to
>write one of the images to a hard drive and then boot from it.

Right. I once knew that. T
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