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I had to chuckle (ok, I was rolling on the floor) when you suggested i might be able to put my C: on a 32GB stick (it only has 272GB on it; the images are 180GB).
The problem was, when it acted up, the transfer speed would gradually drop slower than a crippled snail on sleeping pills. Often, the backup would self-abort. I found switching switching to another dock and cable seemed to fix the problem. I then put the first dock back on without swapping out the cable (I have two identical docks). It continued to behave. It didn't start acting up again until after I had put the original cable back on the first dock (it's a stinker trying to diagnose intermittent problems). It will be easier for me to continue to do my backups with the cable I stole from an external optical drive I'm not using right now (I'm a horrible pack rat) and see if the problem crops up again. I verify all my images so I'm not worried about how they are coming out.