On Nov 28, 11:36 am, Dan <[email protected]> wrote:
> A better idea is to have several external HDs, and rotate them off > site now and then. The 'ole sock-drawer method. The drive docking stations which are now available, make this easy: <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153071> <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182221> my favorite: <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182237> and others... With a dock, you can just buy bare drive mechanisms as needed. I like to use 2.5" mechanisms because they are so compact, although I'm not sure whether a 750 GB 2.5" drive or a 3 TB 3.5" drive has a greater volumetric data density. Get a safe deposit box. You ought to have one anyway. If it's small, use 2.5" drives, which the docks above also support. Rotate one set of backups out to the safe deposit box on some kind of schedule. Even if you don't stick to the schedule, having some kind of back up off site is better than nothing. It may not be up to the minute, but at least it will preserve most of your stuff. I keep thinking about setting up a bank of BD-R drives, because Retrospect will move to the next available drive as it fills the first. So with several, one can load them all with blank media and only need to come back every hour or two to swap media. However, I think hard drives are (or were, before the flooding) actually cheaper per GB than blank BR media. It takes about 100 BR disks to equal one 2 TB hard drive. Recently I've seen the BR blanks at about $35 per 50. So $70 per 2 TB. And this summer hard drives were about $70 per 2 TB. Sigh. Jeff Walther -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
