On 23 Jan 2010, at 15:11, Graham Street wrote: > So, it now means I can look at USB-only external mini disks. Slightly > cheaper, and more plentiful. I've already had a recommendation of Western > Digital (from David). Anyone else using different external mini disks they'd > care to recommend? Anyone tried G-Drive minis or mobile disks, for example?
I've got some WD ones but one (the 320 gig) seems to get occasional power interruptions. The last one I bought was therefore a Seagate something-or-other which seems not to have the same problem. I treat them as large floppy disks to be honest -- they might fail. So I clone each of them from time to time. When a TM one recently started acting weirdly, I just switched to the clone (DW could not fix it) and recloned THAT back to the first. I think that kind of corruption should be treated as occasional but inevitable (so having a clone is like having a spare tyre in the boot). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
