Comments on: External storage options

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:57:27 +0000

No problem at all Tom!

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:45:13 +0000

Thanks for all the suggestions guys.

After some consideration (and seeing what was available through etailers willing to ship to Ireland) I am tending towards the Western Digital 1tb Pro My Book (thanks Sean for putting me on to it).

This is a 1tb external (2 x 500mb) with a triple interface and the ability to mirror the drives (RAID 1) or double the capacity and speed (RAID 0).

Although the Buffalo TeraStation Branedy alerted me to looks like the business too - but it is a tad expensive (!)

By: Ed Byrne

Ed Byrne — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:02:27 +0000

Synk is a great Mac program for backups.

2 external 750gb drive’s is gotta be expensive though … what about buying a cheap pizza box machine and putting in 2 750gb drives … wi-fi share and connect it to your net connection, and you’ve got RAID redundant, access anywhere, 3/4 of a TB for a few hundred bucks!

By: bernard

bernard — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:52:34 +0000

Hi Tom,

Get yourself 2 750GB USB HDDs. Connect them to a desktop machine (you have an iMac, will work perfectly).

Share them out via wifi. Write a quick applescript to automount them onto your PB everything time your within range of your home WiFi node.

Then use rsync (works a treat on OS X) to mirror the content of the 2 HDDs to each other, and also to backup to contents of your PB harddisk to the network shared disks.

Thats what I have at home, and it works perfectly. One warning tho’ the initial sync will take along time (obviously) but after that do incrementals/diffs.

Rsync is available in GUI format, I think RsyncX…

hth,
b.

By: Branedy

Branedy — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 23:32:21 +0000

I,or rather the wife and I have a Buffalo Linkstation, but they also make a greate Terastation. They are NAS drives, running a Linux OS, and can connect USB2 as well.

By: Adrian Smith

Adrian Smith — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:15:21 +0000

I’d second Sean’s recommendation of a Western Digital MyBook. Bought the 250Gb Premium package recently and it’s working out great. The advantage of the Premium over the Essential edition is that the Premium has Firewire as well as USB.

By: Peter Knight > EdenWeb

Peter Knight > EdenWeb — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:46:26 +0000

Have you thought about any of the hosted options?

I’ve got a Maxtor external Hard Drive and I’ve been very happy with it. 250 GB and it’s extremley fast. The power supply died a while ago and they immediately dispatched a brand new one to me (no questions) so they’ve got good support / customer care too.

Other than that, Genie http://www.genie-soft.com/ is a nice utility for backups.

By: E-tailer recommendations at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views

E-tailer recommendations at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:18:33 +0000

[...] In a follow-on to my post on External Storage options, I’m also wondering if anyone could recommend a good (good = reliable and cheap) e-tailer where i could source the sotrage solution i decide on (and any other electronic toys goods I want to buy). [...]

By: Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:08:15 +0000

I have a Seagate 500MB drive that I absolutely love. Thomas Hawk uses a couple of 750GB ones that he loves and trusts. Disclaimer: they sponsor my show, but they also are the only manufacturer with 750GB drives available.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:44:56 +0000

I would reccomend a Mybook. Bought myself a 250gb one there recently. Nothing like it, I keep it plugged in the whole time and listen to music on it etc. etc. Works just like a normal harddrive, personally i think thats the way to go..

By: keith bohanna

keith bohanna — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:23:56 +0000

hey tom, where did the “This Site supports the Taliban’s policy on Feminism” image come from in the feed of this post?!

keith