On 2009-12-26 12:09 , Graydon wrote:
I'm reading Paul's description as the *drive* is nigh 10 years old, and the
enclosure is newer. (I certainly don't remember SATA external
enclosures being available in 1999 or 2000.)
If that is the case, *and* if the enclosure is one of the solid hunk of
aluminium extrusion ones, terabyte drives won't be a problem; the
enclosure gets warm but that's _why_ it's a solid hunk of aluminium
extrusion. If the enclosure is the bulky, air-gap kind, yes, you should
probably make sure it has some kind of cooling fan.
yeah, plus many (most?) new drives produce less heat than their
lower-capacity forebears
The other possible issue is the SATA standard supported by the enclosure
and its various generational permutations; a very first generation SATA
enclosure will work, but it'll be a good deal slower in terms of
read/write throughput than a new terabyte range drive itself is capable
of being. That might not matter for one component of a backup.
all the consumer grade spinning disk drives are significantly slower
than even older 1.5Gb/s SATA, and anyhow the external interface (USB?
FireWire?) is certainly the limiting factor; if it's a 10 year old
enclosure it may even be USB 1, and if so definitely not worth saving;
if it's PATA/IDE (not SATA) then the only reason i'd suggest saving it
is if the user has other PATA drives to put in it -- since it has
survived 10 years it's likely to survive many more
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