Moving 1 TB to eSATA drives

I fi­nally got my eSATA ExpressCard to­day and set up my new ex­ter­nal en­clo­sure. Right now I’m mov­ing a lit­tle over 1 TB of stuff from four sep­a­rate dri­ves to the new JBOD vol­ume (or “Concatenated Disk Set”, ac­cord­ing to Apple), named Archive A, which is made up of two new 750 GB hard disks.

When that’s done, I’ll clone Archive A to Archive B, which will be made up of two of my cur­rent 320 GB disks and an­other new 750 GB disk. Archive B will be in the same eSATA enclosure.

40 hours?!? Not re­ally. A cou­ple hours later it came down to 8 hours.

Those files are go­ing from FireWire 400 and 800 dri­ves to the eSATA drive. Copying from Archive A to Archive B later should take a lot less time.

I’ll write about the en­clo­sure I got later when I’ve used it for a while. So far it’s pretty sweet.