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thinking of buying a backup hard drive suggestions needed
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Keep in mind that the drive is only 5400 RPM.
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If you want pure back-up, and have a reasonably fast connection, then online backup makes sense. I use Mozy Online Backup: Free. Automatic. Secure. for backup, but amazon also offers a very reasonable backup solution. Both mozy.com and amazon have Mac clients that work very well. On my home cable connection it took me 1 1/2 days to upload 6 gb of data.
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I got this from newegg as well. I highly recommend it.
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USB-powered generally means it requires 2 USB ports. The power output of a single USB port isn't enough to safely power a hard drive and transfer data.
3.5" external enclosures generally require an external power adapter.
I would highly, highly recommend buying a Seagate hard drive and getting an external enclosure on NewEgg. External hard drives from WesternDigital, Maxtor, and even Seagate usually have one-year warranties, while an internal Seagate SATA or IDE hard drive will have a five-year warranty. Plus, it will cost you less to get an internal drive and a separate enclosure.
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Originally Posted by Mastrap
On my home cable connection it took me 1 1/2 days to upload 6 gb of data.
So what did you do with the other 744 Gb? 
On topic: Whatever you do, avoid LaCie. They die easily.
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Originally Posted by shifuimam
USB-powered generally means it requires 2 USB ports. The power output of a single USB port isn't enough to safely power a hard drive and transfer data.
3.5" external enclosures generally require an external power adapter.
I would highly, highly recommend buying a Seagate hard drive and getting an external enclosure on NewEgg. External hard drives from WesternDigital, Maxtor, and even Seagate usually have one-year warranties, while an internal Seagate SATA or IDE hard drive will have a five-year warranty. Plus, it will cost you less to get an internal drive and a separate enclosure.
Indeed, and depending on your computer, some USB ports share power, meaning even two USB connections from one bus may not reliably power the drive.
I recommend against a bus-powered enclosure unless you go with a 2.5" drive.
As for drives: Seagate all the way.
My external enclosure is a Vantec, and has been very good.
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I bought a generic 2.5" IDE USB enclosure from Netlink here in Vancouver (NCIX), and I use it with the standard 40 GB Toshiba drive that came in my iBook G4 originally. It works and has always worked just fine off one USB port, in whatever Mac or PC I've tried it on.
Generally, if you want USB-powered only, get a simple enclosure with no fancy gimmicks and find a mobile drive with the lowest current draw on spin-up that you can. It's the motor spin-up that draws the most current, and if your USB port is not providing enough power to make this happen, you'll know.
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I have a 160gb western digital I got few years ago ($60). replaced the old drive in my mac with it... use it all the time and it works great.
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Western Digital is excellent stuff. I still have drives working perfectly from 2002. I have some WDs in a server, they've never had problems. Good MTBF, and good warranties.
As a general rule though, don't keep stuff in only one place, you're just asking for disaster.
Also, why not Firewire? Is it a PC?
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Originally Posted by Doofy
So what did you do with the other 744 Gb?
Heh. That was just meant to give an indication of speed. I see this as an additional safeguard. If the house burns down I still have access to all of my data. It probably takes in the region of two weeks to complete the first backup, but after that you can just monitor your folders and upload changes.
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Originally Posted by Mastrap
If you want pure back-up, and have a reasonably fast connection, then online backup makes sense. I use Mozy Online Backup: Free. Automatic. Secure. for backup, but amazon also offers a very reasonable backup solution. Both mozy.com and amazon have Mac clients that work very well. On my home cable connection it took me 1 1/2 days to upload 6 gb of data.
Thanks for the link! I was going to suggest Amazon S3, but for someone with only a gig or two of data they care about keeping backed up Mozy (free version) seems like the way to go. I just signed up a minute ago and it looks great.
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Got myself a WD 500GB MyBook HDD a month or so ago...works great. takes a few secs to spin-up/get-going after being idle for awhile, but i dont have a problem with that.
As faras reliability, time will tell i guess...but so far im happy with my purchase. And it doesnt look bad either.
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Originally Posted by macfantn
I have the 160GB model. Works great. Plenty fast for backups and document storage. Virtually silent.
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Originally Posted by shifuimam
USB-powered generally means it requires 2 USB ports. The power output of a single USB port isn't enough to safely power a hard drive and transfer data.
The WD Passport drives are fully powered and accessed via a single USB port.
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