Hi Dudley, One little word of advice: Do not depend entirely on your external firewire drive, when you do get it, for your backup. My external firewire drive just failed me last night, although I suspect that it is the power supply that failed. Fortunately most of the data was burnt on either CDs or DVDs, unfortunately not all of them though.
My drive is a Western Digital IDE 7,200 rpm in a firewire box and it is (or rather was) very fast. If the drive also went with the power supply, I'll be buying another WD, although I have heard that LaCie also is very good. I guess one of the suppliers will be able to advise you on this matter. Good luck, Philippe on 6/4/06 3:07 PM, Dudley Gager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > G'day listers > > Am I still in the dark ages backing up to CD? > > I have just found SuperDuper and it seems to me that using it with a > firewire drive would be a lot easier (read I would backup more often) > + I like the idea of bootable backups. > > SuperDuper recommend firewire drives from Other World Computing, > WiebeTech, LaCie or Maxtor OneTouch > > I have about 40GB to back up from a 160GB internal drive. > > I thought of 2 automated rotating backups - weekly and monthly - so I > would need 80GB minimum. > > Do I go for Firewire 800 (my present Mac says it only does 400) and > do I go for 7200 drive speed and any recommendations as to brand. > > Thanks in advance for advice. > > Dudley Gager > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
