If you are going external, just go with eSata. You can get a PCMCIA or Expresscard with esata ports. USB2 is painfully slow. Firewire400 is limited to 50MB/s and has some CPU overhead. eSata is cheap, fast, and available.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:55 PM, colinc <backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com>wrote: > > Thanks again guys. > > Even if it is only the low-end FW that Apple drop I'll probably get caught > - I have a G4 iBook that will need replacing in due course [I still need to > run Classic for some very old files, but one day I'll be free and any > MacBook will do then]. > > If I buy a ready-made RAID it would be the WD 2x1TB array. > > My current internal is 500Gb, only 150Gb used, so I hope my first b/u won't > take 5 days - I think I'd have noticed if it had taken that long to my > current 250Gb LaCie which only gives me a month or two of b/s - the latter > at the moment. > > Cheers, Colin > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by co...@nehoc.co.uk via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >
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