![]() I have 4 HDD docks, but this is defo my favourite ,įIDECO Aluminum Hard Drive Docking Station, USB 3.0 Docking Station for 2.5 and 3.5 inch SATA HDD or SSD, Support Offline Clone and 2x 16TB Hard Drives ĭrives tested include 3 x 3TB Hitatchi and 2 x 3TB Seagate NAS drives, also works just fine with WD drives , although I have only tried with 2x3TB drives. The HDD dock I use was purchased about 2 months ago, and I am delighted with it. Linux 2.5" boot drive, on some other 3TB drive in the dock. The hard drive dock I use, has been seen to write up to about 180MB/s, but not on the I only use an old slow 60GB 2.5 inch drive in my dock for linux boot drive, so is probably slower than it could be, but probably faster Will ensure you can boot without any other drives at all. I use it for any emergency operating system fix, or whatever purposes.īest to disable all internal drives in firmware before install , I have a separate Linux install on external hard drive (also have Linux on SSD alongside Windows 10), via a USB 3.0 hard drive dock. Tails is just a more privacy secure version of Linux, I dont see any reason that some other version of Linux cannot be used instead,Īnd still retain access to Windows 7 partitions via MkvToolNix. This may be a practical option in case you want to use a newer version of mkvmerge (although personally, I usually don't use too new versions, except for testing purpose). But you can use the same audio/video/subtitle files on your HD, so you can basically use mkvmerge just like on Windows Since it's Debian, your Windows tools don't run on it. Click it, and you can use your files on HD/SSD, although Tails itself runs from a USB stick. Notice the file manager's "Show other locations". The screen shot shows MKVToolnix 67 (GUI & CUI on terminal) on Tails, running on my Win7-64 box. But you're happily using Win7, a 10-year-old OS! Why a sudden attachment to the newest version of mkvmerge, when the created MKV is essentially identical even if you use an older mkvmerge? If you're ok with a slightly old version of MKVToolnix, then you can have it on Tails by just a few clicks. Except, as of writing this, you can't install the latest version of MKVToolnix on Tails via Package Manager by default.You don't need to manually compile anything yourself. Tails is designed for ordinary people.If you're avoiding Win10 for privacy concerns, Tails is exactly for you.Tails's file manager can read/write files on your Win7 box, so basically you don't need to migrate to Linux.Both mkvmerge (CUI) and GUI run on Tails, which is a Debian-based OS.You can install Tails in 10 minutes, very easily, once you download a big image.It's not a VM but runs on its own, so it runs on Win7 box like forever (unlike Cygwin, which will eventually stop supporting Win7). You can keep using Win7, while booting to Tails only when necessary.If your main machine is Win7 64-bit, and you want to use MKVToolni圆7+, you could try Tails. Maybe we should stop annoying Mosu directly or indirectly, who had made it clear, as early as 2019, that Win7 was no more actively supported.
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