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<blockquote data-quote="§am" data-source="post: 93188" data-attributes="member: 9187"><p>You can pick up 3TB drives for £<100 these days, but a lot of these are still USB2 connected so still have a bottleneck when copying to.</p><p></p><p>The problems with docks are, most of them require a tray for your HDD to sit in and they only come with enough to fit the enclosure, so you will either need to source more trays or keep swapping them between your drives (assuming it's a single drive dock).</p><p>If you are looking for a docking type solution, look for something with at least a gigabit network interface, and dependent on what OS you use, what file format it uses to store data with.</p><p></p><p>I had a NAS which used a file system only readable by a similar/same NAS, or the need to install a version of Linux and then some major mods which would then make the disk readable - not what I wanted to hear when the enclosure died (but luckily the data on the drives was not critical stuff which I didn't have another copy of).</p><p></p><p>I have an AD domain setup at home (but that's 'cuz I'm an IT man), but now all my backups are kept on NTFS formatted drives.</p><p>Should my box fail, or the OS die, or other failure which doesn't render my drive dead, I can simply unplug from its current housin, plug into another Windows box and simply import the drive and have my data back within minutes).</p><p></p><p>Again - its all going to depend on your needs, budget, and a little technical know how too <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="§am, post: 93188, member: 9187"] You can pick up 3TB drives for £<100 these days, but a lot of these are still USB2 connected so still have a bottleneck when copying to. The problems with docks are, most of them require a tray for your HDD to sit in and they only come with enough to fit the enclosure, so you will either need to source more trays or keep swapping them between your drives (assuming it's a single drive dock). If you are looking for a docking type solution, look for something with at least a gigabit network interface, and dependent on what OS you use, what file format it uses to store data with. I had a NAS which used a file system only readable by a similar/same NAS, or the need to install a version of Linux and then some major mods which would then make the disk readable - not what I wanted to hear when the enclosure died (but luckily the data on the drives was not critical stuff which I didn't have another copy of). I have an AD domain setup at home (but that's 'cuz I'm an IT man), but now all my backups are kept on NTFS formatted drives. Should my box fail, or the OS die, or other failure which doesn't render my drive dead, I can simply unplug from its current housin, plug into another Windows box and simply import the drive and have my data back within minutes). Again - its all going to depend on your needs, budget, and a little technical know how too :) [/QUOTE]
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