On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 13:07, Keith Palmer wrote: > I've just had a look at the spec sheet for the > one-touch backup drive and it is a real joke. It appears that pressing > the button launches Retrospect Express which ships with the drive. > > You get charged a premium price for pressing the button rather than > your mouse.
Ridiculous, isn't it? That was the point of my comments earlier about getting charged for a "cute little button". Sadly, it's a marketing trick that seems to work. Personally, I'd be inclined to buy a FireWire enclosure with an LBA48-compatible bridge (for disks larger than 120GB), and plonk whatever disk I wanted in it. Lots more flexibility that way - you can upgrade the drive later, for example. You'd need to do a little research to make sure you got an enclosure with a quality bridge that's compatible with most machines, but then you need to do that with external FireWire disks anyway. Craig Ringer
