Back up Any Hard Drive

How to Back up Any Hard Drive(3)

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1.Spare power cables, (Molex), are usually available within the case. Any of them can be used.
2.IDE flat data cables are used to connect from drives to the motherboard, and these have a socket on each end. They are all the same and for this purpose, any of them will do.

3.Some flat cables have another socket connector midway along their length so that they can connect to both the master drive and a slave drive using the same cable. Some IDE ATA-133 cables of this type are round instead of flat, and are said to allow better air circulation in the cabinet.

4.SATA connectors differ from IDE and PATA types. Be sure to consider the cables carefully when you select the drive.

5.PC cases often look big enough but on closer inspection cannot fit two hard drives. If this is your intention, study the matter carefully.

6.Mounting screws are often missing from hard drives' packs. They are US style 6/32 screws, regardless of where in the world the drive is purchased, so get some while at the computer store.

7.When using the source disc frequently, a smaller source drive transfers its data faster. This is because the whole drive is always copied.

8.An old 10GB hard drive takes about twenty minutes for the data transfer. Plan for bigger drives appropriately.

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