[Maced] External HD

[John Akhurst]

Thanks Q

Have bit the bullet and bought it. The scare yesterday morning was  
enough to get me off my backside and looking for a solution asap. At  
299 it was certainly the right price. Even if it only lasts the 3  
years of warranty then I have got my moneys worth. Have partitioned  
into 2 sections one to backup both my Intel iMac and my laptop. The  
other section is used to backup another firewire drive that I use to  
store my photos, music and movies on. CCC is currently backing up the  
laptop (10.4), Time machine did the iMac (10.5) yesterday and  
Superduper has done the firewire drive over night. All future backups  
scheduled for late at night and will now be incremental - so there  
shouldn't be too much strain on the drive.
All seems well at the moment. As these are all done late at night I  
am not too worried about the speed just the knowledge that my files  
are safe in another place.

Thanks to those that offered advice.

John

On 02/03/2008, at 12:22 AM, Quentin Hall wrote:

> Dear John
>
>
> Over the years, I've not had much luck with Western Digital (even  
> the ones Apple purchased).  I tend to use Seagate drives (5 year  
> warranty - but not when they are placed inside "some other brand of  
> hard drive case" when the warranty drops to 1 year - maybe 2).    
> The USB 2.0 seems to be the rage at OfficeWorks for the PC but we  
> can run FireWire 400 and in many cases FireWire 800 (you'll  
> probably want to reformat it Mac style as it tends to be some  
> Windows NT format).
>
> So that means a "all in one box with the lot" - something like a La  
> Cie - a bit more expensive but at least you have USB 2 and the  
> FireWires (and often eSATA).  More flexible and FireWire 800 if you  
> have lots to back up in a day is certainly fast. Very fast.
>
> However, if time isn't an issue USB-2 drives work.  I'm currently  
> having issues with a person who has a Maxtor (which is a Seagate  
> company) drive which is USB -2.  It keeps saying "this volume is  
> locked" - even after I reformatted it.  Something wrong there!
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Q
>
>
> On 01/03/2008, at 7:15 AM, John Akhurst wrote:
>
>> I am currently looking at getting an external hard drive to do my  
>> Time Machine backups. Officeworks have a Western Digital 1TB  
>> Essentials 3.5 Hard Drive USB 2.0 drive for $299. Has anyone had  
>> any experience with these or suggest an alternative. Had a little  
>> scare this morning. Thought I had lost a bit of data, so I want to  
>> get this up and running asap.
>>
>> Thanks
>> John
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