GaryK

Looking to get one, anyone care to share any experiences? Was looking at the maxtor one touch but read some bad things about its reliability, anyone been using external storage for any length of time?

Cheers

Gary

ScoobyDoo555

IMHO, expensive.

Especially, when you can buy a USB caddy, and put in a normal IDE drive to your own size requirements.

I've got a Speeze cradle with 160Gig HD in it. Works a treat. Cost me £15 for the caddy and about £50 for the drive (a while back)

check out Novatech or Ebay

Dan

AllanB

No forget that you can buy a decent warrantied Formac 250Gb drive for around £100 ext VAT from MacWarehouse.

http://www.macwarehouse.co.uk/catalogue/item/FORHDD02

AllanB

ScoobyDoo555

and very good value they are too


Dan

RichB

I want something external to mirror my g5 160gb disk but I also want to be able to stick it on my prehistoric lappy with only USB.
Any top tips on any disks with both FW and USB.
Also any that come with software that will doing scheduled synching?

Cheers,
Rich

ScoobyDoo555

was looking into this, and couldn't see the need for FW - as USB2.0 virtually as quick and backwards compatible.....

Syncing wise - never really looked into, as personally the drive gets backed up when I actually use it. eg on my Mac, after I've done a project, just save it twice to different destinations....

Would be interested what is out there (software-wise!)

Daryl

I think the .Mac account has Backup, which allows you to automatically sync your files. You can download a trial version. Not sure if it's worth it though?

jpor

iTrader: (1)

Whats the reliabilty issue with these? I currently own a Version 1 with 5,000 RPM 300GB Hard Drive. And not seen any reliabilty issues yet.