Can you take the hard drive out of a computer, hook it to another computer and place the contents on that computer in a short time frame and keep it there permanently? I took my computer to a person yesterday and he took the hard drive out and connected it with some sort of part to his computer to see if it was okay. Everything on my hard drive came up on his monitor. It was there for a couple of minutes and then he disconnected and put back in my computer. Is my information safe? Thank you.
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That depends entirely on how trustworthy that person is ... it is very easy to setup a "silent" cloning of anything connected to the system.
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Cloning a hard drive takes time, depending on size of course. In the time it was connected it is possible to do a directed suck of specific information, but not the entire drive.
I transferred about 100gb of data from a hard drive to a solid state drive and it took about an hour over a USB connection (not sure if it was 2.0 or 3.0).
So it is possible that he took something, but unlikely if you were sitting right there.
I transferred about 100gb of data from a hard drive to a solid state drive and it took about an hour over a USB connection (not sure if it was 2.0 or 3.0).
So it is possible that he took something, but unlikely if you were sitting right there.
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USB3?
That ^^^ is less than double the speed of USB1.1, and less than 5% of the speed of USB2 ... Sorry, but this is not a typical transfer rate of today. External eSATA dongle, handled by rsync, can chew through 100GB drive in no time ...
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MBP17•David;1588838 said:USB3?
I just let it sit and run. It was from the internal HDD to an OWC Merc Electra SSD in a USB enclosure, which were then swapped. I was using Carbon Copy Cloner. Once in the MBP everything was fine.
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For the record, neither USB2 or USB3 have *ever* run at the maximum rated speeds people often quote. Those are theoretical limits, with the accent on the theoretical.
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Oh, absolutely! Also people often confuse bus transfer rate with read/write speed of a drive ... B & b adds to the confusion too.
However, even at 20x times the theoretical throughput of eSATA, it'll only take rsync about a minute to grab 100GB.
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