Or get TWO of the same drives and set them up as a RAID 1 (mirror) and NEVER worry about a hard drive going bad.
Mirroring writes the same data to two disks, so if one of them goes bad... Just a thought. See OS X's Disk Utility for the controls to do it. On Nov 6, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Sttuart Ungar <teamungar at yahoo.com> wrote: > I am wondering what the best way to back up my system > is. I have a mac mini and have about 10,000 photos > and some iTunes songs I would want backed up. For > some reason, my DVD burner that is built in is not > working for backing up the data. Any thoughts about > an external hard drive (which ones are good and at > what price)? Or, can I buy one of those cool new 5th > gen iPods to use as back up??? Or, do they compress > the files further? -- Jonathan Fletcher jfletch at newmediaconstco.com | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
