On 26/09/2011, at 11:56 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > I always prefer and recommend using an external drive exclusively for Time > Machine backups, then use another external drive for ’Storage’. > But this is just my preference, others might not agree ;-) >
I certainly agree with this given the current price of hard drives, and the availability of devices like NewTech's Voyager hard drive caddy. A bare 1Tb drive will set you back around $60 from Austin Computers, and few of these in combination with the drive caddy allows for an almost unlimited choice of backup routines. I have one for Time Machine backups (which is mounted most of the time), another I swap out once a week for a complete Carbon Copy clone, and yet another with a full installation of Lion. Then there a couple of 500Gb USB drives which I use for roaming data storage on my laptop. There may still be some specific reasons for partitioning a hard drive, but economy of space is no longer one of them. Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
