Time Machine

[Bill Cheeseman]

on 2007-10-26 3:59 PM, Kevin Callahan at kcall at mac.com wrote:

> Anybody suggest a reliable large disk?

This is a terribly unreliable way for you to get good advice, but I'll bite.

After losing half a dozen inexpensive drives from a well-known manufacturer
I won't name on the day after the warranty expired over a short period of
years, I started buying LaCie d2 drives despite the higher price. The ROI is
better despite the higher price, and I've been very happy ever since. I now
have 200G, 250G, 500G and 1T LaCie d2 FireWire 800 drives hanging off my
dual G5, and I'm very happy with them. I bought the 1T drive just a few days
too early; otherwise, if I'd known what was coming, I would have bought a 2T
LaCie drive. But I think the 1T drive will be adequate to back up my
internal drives on 4 Macs in my home office plus my wife's Mac using Time
Machine -- even though I'm putting my iMovie '08 event folder on the same
drive.

(That last bit wasn't quite fair. Two of the Macs in my office are used only
when the granddaughters are visiting and they need to play games: Barbie as
Rapunzel for the 4-year old on a G3 tower running Mac OS 9.2.2, and Otto
Matic for the 8-year old on an ancient G4 tower that just misses the cut for
Leopard.)

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Bill Cheeseman - bill at cheeseman.name
Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA
www.quecheesoftware.com

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