Stewart
On 06/06/2007, at 10:16 AM, Stewart Woods wrote:
Hi all,
In the interests of quelling paranoia and preparing for Apple's Oh-
so-easy Time Machine come Leopard, I'm looking at buying an
external hard drive to back up all the important stuff on our home
network.
Looking at Zytech's prices for 500Gb Firewire drives, they're far
more reasonable than those at the Apple store (No surprise there),
but I was wondering if there is anything I should know about
brands, USB 2.0 vs. Firewire, etc before I commit.
Are some better than others?
How much does the drive speed matter?
I'm hoping to back all our movies and music to the drive and stream
it to the other (4) machines - Will that be problematic?
I've had good results with a Firewire 800 external drive, and the
BareFeats site supports the conclusion that FW800 is significantly
faster than FW400 or USB2.0. I got the MacPower Pleiades Super S-
Combo enclosure (http://www.macpower.com.tw/products/hdd3/pleiades/
pd_scombo) and used it with a suitable SATA IDE drive for the best
speed. The S-Combo has FW800, FW400, USB2.0 and E-Sata and so is
moderately future-proof. You can probably come close to or beat any
packaged price, especially if you go to http://www.staticice.com.au/
and do your online shopping there.
Cheers, Glen Low
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