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Time to get the local  / on-site backup system upgraded   I’ve been relying on the Sabrent USB-DSC5 Serial ATA or IDE 2.5-/3.5-Inch to USB 2.0 Cable Converter Adapter with Power Supply for some time, but of course it is slow and rather manual. It’s a great thing to have on hand for when you need to interface with a bare laptop or desktop drive, but it’s got a number of cables hung all over, and of course it’s only running at USB2 speeds (not so good to back up lots of data)

A small step in the right direction was to go for the following :

eSATA USB to SATA External HDD Dock for Dual 2.5 or 3.5in Hard Drive

37 inches Round External eSATA Data Cable , I-Type Red, (94 cm)

Syba SD-SA2PEX-2E PCIe 2x e-SATA Ports with SIL3132 Chipset

I figured it was also time to go for a sale item : Acer Aspire AS1410-8414 11.6-Inch Sapphire Blue Laptop – 6 Hour Battery Life This was at 299.99 shipped during the “Black Friday” things at Amazon.

This “notebook” will get a full review later, but essentially it is a little bigger than the EEE PC’s I’ve used, yet still pretty portable, and with quite a bit more processor (64 bit) & memory capability (4 gigabytes) on board. I consider that pretty important before loading Windows 7 x64 on board.

For the sake of convenience I also ordered another D-Link DUB-H7 High Speed USB 2.0 7-Port Hub and some additional flash drives : SanDisk Cruzer Micro 16 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive SDCZ6-016G-A11

The hub because I can always use the additional powered channels, and the flash drives as quick / portable backup devices. I also like to keep a copy of Windows 7 on each, set to install from flash (much faster than DVD install) : 32 bit on one, and 64 bit on another.