I'm looking for opinions on the reliability of brands of external
hard drives, the moderate-sized multi-MB stationary ones that are
designed for storage and backups.
I have been using hard drives for backup for over 10 years with results
that are much better than when I was using tape. The
It's not an issue with your ISP, it's that you have way too much time on
your hands. Bookmark the site using the correct full address and always use
that.
On Dec 12, 2007 9:23 AM, Steve Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps someone can explain this to me. I want to get to a certain
site
Last I heard it was not possible to check SMART via USB2 or 1394?
eSATA will do it, but my own experiments with it show my Intel mobo won't
hot swap! If Intel won't do it, who can one expect to (Nvidia, apparently).
All drives should be checked regularly. I use a utility that tests SMART
How is the battery life on the Macbook and are there battery options (size)?
Is it ok to go with the low-end model ($1099), with the 80GB drive/1GB
RAM or does that create future upgrade issues?
Thanks,
Richard P.
Tom Piwowar wrote:
A friend who has used Windows forever is looking to move
The stock battery in the current laptops is fine. When it gets old,
there are third party companies that will sell you a replacement that
exceeds original specs.
If you are comfortable working within the confines of a laptop (opening
the case) and replacing a hard drive to increase its capacity,
Here is more information than you want g:
1. Your browser will convert www.xyz.com to http://www.xyz.com on the
assumption that the default protocol you want to use is HTTP. This is a
pretty safe assumption. If you are using another protocol, such as
accessing a local file or doing an ftp
Last I heard it was not possible to check SMART via USB2 or 1394?
You are right. Can't get the SMART status through the FireWire interface.
So my SMART utility is not polling my backup drive.
One more reason my next set of drives will be eSATA.
Where do you store your off-site backups?
A bare (not in a case) 3.5 hard drive will fit in a small bank safe deposit
box, and is conveniently used with one of the many available bare interfaces
(no case, just the electronics for data and power), e.g., USB to IDE/EIDE (or
SATA). Only the
At 09:34 AM 12/12/2007, Tom Piwowar wrote:
All drives should be checked regularly. I use a utility that tests SMART
satus every few minutes and will issue a warning if that fails. I also
run a disk utility about once a month. I check the backup logs almost
every day. Rotating several drives
Is it ok to go with the low-end model ($1099), with the 80GB drive/1GB
RAM or does that create future upgrade issues?
It depends. It has 2 memory slots. Only one is easy to get to. So ideally
you want it to come with 1024 in the hard-to-get-to slot and the easy one
empty so you can eventually
At some point, I imagine most all backup will be done online because of
the obvious advantages.
Currently Amazon's S3 online backup service is one that I am aware of.
Below are S3's rates.
Can anyone recommend others?
db
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*$0.15 per GB-Month of storage
The nice thing about using a hard drive as backup media is that
incremental backups are consolidated (by copying new/newer files) into a
directory tree that is current and complete. Copying can be with or
without replicating deletions so that old stuff can be preserved in the
backup. The
This is good information, thanks.
Can the laptop be ordered with 1024 in the hard to-get slot? I didn't
see this option on Apple's webpage.
How difficult is it to get to the hard-to-get-to memory slot? Does it
require taking apart more of the case or is it just difficult to access
through
How difficult is it to get to the hard-to-get-to memory slot? Does it
require taking apart more of the case or is it just difficult to access
through the main opening?
Major disassembly.
* == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE
and what is that utility which tests the drives, where
do we find it.
Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page.
http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
Do you have any average internet transfer throughput figures Tom?
While average people have a lot of voluminous but not time critical data
such as digital photos, usually the people's critical addressbook,
encrypted password list, banking, personal biz data, email etc. isn't
that
Yes, but Time machine is still a local backup device... which few will
ever... despite good intentions ... remove from the premises.
When so many's essential biz is being done and stored on computer, not
having fail-safe backup is nonsensical. Determining the security of the
backup by the
On Dec 12, 2007 2:48 PM, db [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While average people have a lot of voluminous but not time critical data
such as digital photos, usually the people's critical addressbook,
encrypted password list, banking, personal biz data, email etc. isn't
that substantial.
I would
mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
Qwest. One of my friends who is on cox cable and lives about two miles away
gets regular download speeds of 12mbit. I count myself lucky if I get 1.
We had some problems last year with Verizon DSL basic service. It was
slow, dropping off, after having it
Good point. I was assuming the users know where their critical data
is. A very unrealistic assumption.
I think it would take less time to sort out their data into critical and
not critical then back up online than to spend time regularly trying
to reliably back up everything locally.
But
I'm picking up a G3/500MHz iMac that doesn't have an airport card. It
needs to be part of a wireless network.
There are several USB WiFi adapters that work with these old iMacs.
Which ones/brand/model? Is there an 802.11g model that will work? thx
Betty
In the Macbook the slots are very easy to get to. Just two levers in the
battery compartment.
David Newhall
Falls Church, VA
Subject: Re: Windows to Apple migration?
This is good information, thanks.
Can the laptop be ordered with 1024 in the hard to-get slot? I didn't
see this option on
The box with my DSL ATT stuff arrived today and Im not sure I'm
going to even try to install it. I hadn't realized that their modem
was also the wireless box. I have NO intention of redoing my
wireless network again. I just bought...and lovean Airport
extreme and want to use it.
Where do you store your off-site backups?
At Iron Mountain's facility.
A bare (not in a case) 3.5 hard drive will fit in a small bank safe
deposit box, and is conveniently used with one of the many available
bare interfaces (no case, just the electronics for data and power),
e.g., USB to
At some point, I imagine most all backup will be done online because of
the obvious advantages.
Currently Amazon's S3 online backup service is one that I am aware of.
Below are S3's rates.
Can anyone recommend others?
Mozy. $4.95/month unlimited storage. Or 2 GB for free, which is what
Let me correct myself DSL modems are different than Cable modems.
Stewart
At 08:22 PM 12/12/2007, you wrote:
NO!
DSL modems are completely different than DSL modems.
You need to contact ATT and see about getting a plain jane DSL
modem. I can understand them wanting you to use theirs and I
I want to upgrade the OS 10.3.9 on my eMac 1.25 gigahertz machine.
This computer can run 10.5 Leopard, but it is marginal in terms of
horsepower compared to newer machines that run faster. Would Leopard
cause this particular computer to bog down and perform sluggishly as
opposed to how it
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