ThinkPad X61 : USB HDD Case and Full Backup

Well, it's a real better safe than sorry thing. :0

As I didn't have an USB 2.5" SATA HDD case so far, today I went to Akihabara on my way back from a small business trip within Tokyo area.

Right below is the USB HDD case I bought. Century COM25EU2B, \2,980-.



BTW, left above is not a 2.5" HDD, but a 3.5" one. Seagate ST3320620AS(320GB,SATA) \10,300-
Actually, my desktop PC also had an HDD trouble recently, and it's a replace. :)

Well, I wrote "better safe than sorry" at the front.
What I wanted to do is of course full HDD image backup and the below is a terminal log.

| [root@zorac ~]# dd if=/dev/sdc of=/mnt/sdb1/x61-initial-hdd-160g.img bs=10240
| 15629090+1 records in
| 15629090+1 records out
| 160041885696 bytes (160 GB) copied, 5464.87 seconds, 29.3 MB/s

/dev/sdc above is the ThinkPad HDD connected by the USB case, and the image file is saved onto the 320GB new HDD.
It took about 1.5 hours. :o