[AccessD] OT Friday: Diskettes on the fly?

That is exactly what I do.  I bought an external hard drive holder that interfaces via eSATA.  You 
can buy little connector widgets that plug into an SATA port and screw down to an empty slot in the 
back panel.  Plug in the external drive and voila, an external SATA drive.  I threw a 1.5 gig hard 
disk in there and just leave it turned on.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Max Wanadoo wrote:
> Arthur, why don't you back the 1TB to another 1TB - they are cheap enough
> these days.
> 
> Max
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 2:31 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Friday: Diskettes on the fly?
> 
> I remember a program called FastBack that I used to back up my 10MB hard
> disk. LOL. It took about 50 diskettes to do a single backup. Now I'm faced
> with similar problems. You know many dual-layer DVDs it takes to back up a
> Terabyte? Sheesh.
> 
> Arthur
> 
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:53 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> 
>> In 1997 while living down in Mexico, I gave away my collection of 
>> software on floppy.  Even 10 years ago the floppy was pretty much 
>> useless.
>>
>> I still keep about 20 simply because they are getting hard to buy and 
>> the older versions of windows still require them for the driver 
>> install when installing windows.  Even that is finally going away 
>> (thank goodness) with Vista and beyond.
>>
>> I would say they are good for making the trash heap a little bigger.
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>
>>
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