At 4:29 PM -0400 10/25/2011, John Callahan wrote:
Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive?
500GB to 700GB's, is cost any indication of quality? Need only for
back up, speed is not a factor, nor is Firewire important. Something
in the $100.00 range.
hum. A "good" drive? No, drives are evil, all evil. Personally,
I'm partial to big Seagates or Hitachi's. Recently I've preferrred
to buy bare drives and stick 'em in boxes. If you must buy one in a
box, I'm fond of LaCie's offerings. They're a bit expensive, but the
boxes are very high quality.
Avoid Western Digital externals -- some have issues when it comes to
booting on Macs (see the various tech support articles and threads on
CCC's web site).
And avoid installing any craplets that come with the drive. Unless
it's a RAID solution, such as a (cool) Drobo, a real drive requires
no additional software - you already have Disk Utility and Finder and
CCC. The craplets are stupid things that watch the drive's "status"
in some way ... and are often quite unreliable - incompatible with OS
updates, crashy, etc.
Carpe HD!
At 7:36 AM -0700 10/26/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Drive prices are going to go up in the near future because the
factories that make a huge percentage of them are flooded right now:
Note this may force Apple's hand, supply-wise, to accelerate it's
adoption of solid-state drives across the line.
sigh. While I think SSDs are a good idea in portable devices, I
really hate the idea of using them en mass in desktop computers.
People expect reliability from their home-based storage devices!
OTOH, it's good for the repair business and the NAND manufacturers.
OTGH, Apple & the FBI really really do want you to put stuff in the clouds!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/610326/Jobs-iCloud.jpg
- Dan.
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