Re: Save (backup)

[Russ Urquhart russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

Hi,
I've been using firewire to connect external hard drives. I currently
had a WD 120 Gb and a maxtor 120 Gb. So far i've not had any problems
with them.
Let me recommend Wiebetech. While they make and sell firewire drives,
enclosures, etc. What i've been using and has been quite handy, is
their Drive Dock. This is a small blue box that connects to the back of
an internal hard drive making it immediately accessible as a firewire
device. My plan was to use this mechanism to, purchase an internal hard
drive as needed, connect to the Drive Dock, connect to my computer,
backup my system, disconnect the drive and store the back up.
This works for me. The internal hard drives are usually cheaper than
buying the drive already in an enclosure, and you can choose which
drive type and size you want.
Also, Wiebetech has been GREAT as far as support and coming our with
products. (Firewire 800, etc.) I cannot say enough good things about
them.

Hope this helps!


Russ
On Tuesday, December 16, 2003, at 08:47 AM, Michael Norman wrote:
> At 12/16/2003 12:59 AM -0500, Robert Holmgren wrote:
> > if Firewire is truly down to $1/Gig, then key drives are about
> > 400x more expensive than Firewire, in terms of cost per unit of
> > storage. Plus
> > the maximum key drive capacity is what -- 256Mb? 512Mb maybe? That
> > won't back
> > up much software nowadays, and anyway the intent of key drives is not
> > backup
> > but portability. Whereas 200Gb Firewire is becoming common. There's
> > no
> > comparison.
> Checking Firewire drives I see that you can put a $20 PCI USB 2.0 card
> in your W98SE and connect. This is an ideal solution for our house --
> 2 XP machines and 2 W98 machines. I can back up three of those
> machines to one Firewire drive. I think Patricia talked about Seagate
> drives in general. Any other favorites?
>
> Michael Norman