Hello G-listers.
The recent talk of backups and external drives has made me think again
about what I want to do about that. Currently I'm using the "prayer"
method of data retention, and while this has worked for years, I know
it will not work forever.
Are any hard drive manufacturers significantly better than others
today? I want to get a Firewire drive, and looking at Pricewatch I see
250GB Hitachi units for ~$120. How's Hitachi? Do ALL Hitachi drives
have the annoying seek feature? What about Western Digital, Seagate,
and others?
I plan on buying two for the purposes of backing up my systems. Two
will allow me to have a rotating backup - I'll switch the drives
weekly.
I'm really buying this to back up only my iMac (80GB HD; 65GB used),
but practically I'll back up the PowerBook (80GB HD; 60 GB used) ...
and also my other systems (various PowerMacs and other things), but
those are all miniscule compared to the iMac and PowerBook. Also, note
that I really don't need a 250GB HD - it's really overkill - but I'm
not sure it makes sense to buy anything much smaller.
Another idea would be to buy a 120GB HD to match my current Firewire
drive, pairing those up as rotating backup partners, and to buy another
drive to use as my DV drive. The problem with doing that is that I
couldn't have one full backup of my systems (notably the PowerBook and
iMac) on such a drive.
Any thoughts or recommendations on the hardware side? I already have a
suitable software solution.
Thanks.
Daniel
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