Hi Severin, If you have an alternative site to store it, you can also go with the rotating disk approach - disk 1 at home, disk 2 offsite - and rotate them on a weekly (or other) basis.
Officeworks Albany are doing a really good deal on the 500GB WD MyPassport Studio (FW800 & USB2.0) - I bought one the other week for $89 (along with an Airport Extreme for $45 and an Airport Express for $37.50!) but it's even better now: I saw online somewhere that they had dropped the price on the Studio drive to $67 - but that they were mostly sold out. I checked their clearance section online - which confirmed the $67 price but said sold out: <http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Technology/Data-Storage/Pocke t-Hard-Drives/WDBE0500SL> However, I remembered that there had been a few units at Albany and went in on Monday to check - they still had a few and so I got another couple to do just what you are talking about (keep one off-site and rotate between them) they still had the $89 clearance sign up - but they scanned at $67 ;o)). As of Monday they still had 3 or 4 units left (after my purchase) so you may be lucky. (The Airport Extremes and Aiport Expresses seem to have gone though). Note that this drive has just been superseded by this one: <http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Technology/Data-Storage/Pocke t-Hard-Drives/WDAL500BK> The new model has the advantage of 2 FW800 ports - rather than the single FW800 port of the clearance model - however, they want $179 for that - whereas you could get 2 of the clearance model for $134 ;o) Just a thought ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [email protected] on 27/6/12 3:47 PM, Severin Crisp at [email protected] wrote: > I have a significant amount of material (up to 200GB) that I would like to > back up securely offsite. iCloud looks pricey! Are there cheaper > alternatives - I am looking at weekly backup updates or similar. > Severin Crisp > > ________________________________________________________ > Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP > 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. > Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) > email mailto:[email protected] > ________________________________________________________ > -- 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>
