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USB Detachable Hard Drive
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Looking to use a transportable hard drive (is that the right term) for my "off site" back up of my digital photographs etc. Need to be in the order of min 250 gig (perhaps larger) and preferably with USB V1 and Firewire. Any suggestions? -- Don From Down Under |
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Don wrote:
Folks Looking to use a transportable hard drive (is that the right term) for my "off site" back up of my digital photographs etc. Need to be in the order of min 250 gig (perhaps larger) and preferably with USB V1 and Firewire. Any suggestions? Hi, You can have an enclosure with dual I/O, both Fire Wire and USB. Matter of installing your choice of HDD and plugging into I/O port of your choice. Tony |
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Folks Looking to use a transportable hard drive (is that the right term) for my "off site" back up of my digital photographs etc. Need to be in the order of min 250 gig (perhaps larger) and preferably with USB V1 and Firewire. Any suggestions? Sure, just about ANY USB 2.0 and/or Firewire drive in the size you need. Many are available. Don't pay more than $.50 a GB. -- Ron Hunter |
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Don wrote:
Folks Looking to use a transportable hard drive (is that the right term) for my "off site" back up of my digital photographs etc. Need to be in the order of min 250 gig (perhaps larger) and preferably with USB V1 and Firewire. Any suggestions? Sure, just about ANY USB 2.0 and/or Firewire drive in the size you need. Many are available. Don't pay more than $.50 a GB. -- Ron Hunter |
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I use the Unibrain, which also supports Firewire800
Their web page explains all. ________________ G. Paleologopoulos "Don" wrote in message ... Folks Looking to use a transportable hard drive (is that the right term) for my "off site" back up of my digital photographs etc. Need to be in the order of min 250 gig (perhaps larger) and preferably with USB V1 and Firewire. Any suggestions? -- Don From Down Under |
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Why not get an extra memory card?They are not that expensive, and they are
robust.For someone like me, who was brought up in the 80's, and was used to computers having a 'large' memory of 64 kB, buying a lexar sd card 128 MB for 33 euro is a good deal. -- Tzortzakakis Dimitriïs major in electrical engineering, freelance electrician FH von Iraklion-Kreta, freiberuflicher Elektriker dimtzort AT otenet DOT gr Ï "Don" Ýãñáøå óôï ìÞíõìá ... Folks Looking to use a transportable hard drive (is that the right term) for my "off site" back up of my digital photographs etc. Need to be in the order of min 250 gig (perhaps larger) and preferably with USB V1 and Firewire. Any suggestions? -- Don From Down Under |
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Why not get an extra memory card?They are not that expensive, and they are
robust.For someone like me, who was brought up in the 80's, and was used to computers having a 'large' memory of 64 kB, buying a lexar sd card 128 MB for 33 euro is a good deal. -- Tzortzakakis Dimitriïs major in electrical engineering, freelance electrician FH von Iraklion-Kreta, freiberuflicher Elektriker dimtzort AT otenet DOT gr Ï "Don" Ýãñáøå óôï ìÞíõìá ... Folks Looking to use a transportable hard drive (is that the right term) for my "off site" back up of my digital photographs etc. Need to be in the order of min 250 gig (perhaps larger) and preferably with USB V1 and Firewire. Any suggestions? -- Don From Down Under |
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"Don" wrote in message ... Folks Looking to use a transportable hard drive (is that the right term) for my "off site" back up of my digital photographs etc. Need to be in the order of min 250 gig (perhaps larger) and preferably with USB V1 and Firewire. Any suggestions? There are plenty of available 250GB external hard drives with USB 2.0 (backward compatible with 1.0/1.1 of course, but that is really much slower) and also combo drives with USB 2.0 and Firewire. I have external drives, though not in that particular size, by Western Digital and SimpleTech, and both have worked fine so far. Apart from form factor (the SimpleTech is more compact and can be positioned vertically, which is convenient) I haven't noticed any functional difference between them. |
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Looking to use a transportable hard drive (is that the right term) for
my "off site" back up of my digital photographs etc. Any suggestions? Don, we have six of these in various sizes from various dealers (Acom, Maxtor, Western Digital, maybe another brand off-site right now). When we need one we just catch the weekly sale at Fry's and buy whatever's on sale. None have failed yet though I'm sure all will fail eventually (we buy them two at a time and duplicate the data, keeping them in different locations). I'd suggest you avoid USB V1 and go with USB 2 at least (if you can even find a USB V1 anymore). The ones with both Firewire and USB 2 cost a bit more but are more versatile and the Firewire is faster. We usually pay between 50 - 75 cents (US) per GB after rebate and it's going down every year. Bill |
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Why not get an extra memory card?
He's talking gigabytes, you must be talking megabytes |
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