Re: data restore after an upgrade?

[Cameron Simpson]

On 04May2016 16:42, Samuel Sieb  wrote:
> > connect one of the old disks to the now new system via a USB to SATA
> >
> > adapter (note the machine only has usb 1.1) mount the disk and copy the
> > data over.
>
> That wouldn't be so bad given the amount of data.

Even on 1.1? Haven't actually done the math for 25GB of data though.
> If you can determine which USB ports are on different controllers, you could 
> hook up both drives as RAID and copy faster.
>
> Or you could put a USB 2.0 card in the computer.

If he's going to do this, put in USB 3.0. It is impressively faster, and if 
you're upgrading such a component, why not do it properly? It won't make your 
disc faster, but most drives are well faster than USB 2.0, provided you put 
them in an suitable enclosure.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson