As of yesterday the cheapest bare drive I saw on newegg.com was $80 for
a 640GB drive, which works out to about 12.5 cents per GB in $US. The
500GB for $65 was a close second at 13 cents per GB.
CB
Scott Howell wrote:
Actually yes you would. The reason is that if you were to delete
something, TIme Machine has no clue whether you intended to do this or
made a mistake. I would not worry about that either. The reason is
that you can set Time Machine to automatically delete old backups so
this way at some point that 10Gb of data you dumped will be dumped
itself. Time Machine is very good at managing the space on your drive.
I would recommend having at least a drive equal to or larger than your
internal drive. My Time Capsule has 500Gb and I just got a new iMac
with 300Gb storage. Of course we backup all the machines to the Time
Capsule so space will become limited at some point if I really filled
this drive. :) However, the good thing is you can slap a usb hub on
the Time Capsule and dangle more drives and use those if you wanted.
The good thing is, drives are getting cheaper. Ah yes, I remember the
day when a 120Mb drive cost me $1,000. Imagine that.
On Sep 18, 2008, at 1:36 AM, Søren Jensen wrote:
Hi Scott.
I've also got a little external harddisc I'll use to backup my Mac.
I've made a backup of the whole system. What happen if I de-site to
remove some programs? Can I choose to remove these programs in Time
machine as well? If I remove 10 gb of data which I don't use anymore,
do I then have to remove it manually from my backup disc?
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On 18/09/2008, at 01.07, Scott Howell wrote:
The short answer is Time Machine will backup your Mac to a drive and
will continue to do so hourly. It will allow you to immediately go
and retrieve something you've deleted and possibly dumped from your
trash and suddenly realize you want it. Also, it's done
automatically so you don't have to think about it. Of course it'll
only backup items that have been changed, are new etc. Copying and
so forth is of course another option available to you, provided you
are faithful in doing this on a regular basis.
Hope that helps.
On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Tiffany D wrote:
Ok, so I got my new external hard drive and am wondering. What's the
difference between using Time Machine to back up my files and just
copying and pasting? I want to back up things on a few different
computers: my Mac, my parents' XP desktop, my XP desktop and possibly
my XP laptop, if I can ever get it to work long enough to do that.
Thanks,
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