Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have one of those I bought to transfer a large number of files to one of my kids at college (music and photos). It's a cheap drive. It's slow. And it sometimes doesn't get recognized at first try on Macs or PCs. But it does hold the data that I wanted it to hold and now it has been relegated to second (or third) tier backup duties- just one more copy of everything. I might look at a slightly more expensive drive (one that that has a better enclosure) for serious backup. Allen >My local Best Buy store is selling Western >Digital 500 GB MyBook External USB 2.0/eSata >Hard Drives (Model WDG1SU5000N) for $140. I >think that is cheap enough to buy a couple and >use them as back ups for my image files. > >I'm not talking about using Retrospect back up >software or doing anything fancy, I'm talking >about just copying my image files from my >computer's hard drive over to an external hard >drive as a form of back up. > >Is there a reason this is not a good idea? > >Should I instead (or in addition?) be burning >the image files to Gold DVDs and storing them >there? > >Even with sales tax these Western Digital drives >work out to about 30? per GB which seems pretty >cheap to me. > >I know that USB 2.0 is not the fastest transfer >mechanism on the block but for what I have in >mind I *think* it would be acceptable. > >Thanks for any thoughts. > >--Bob > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information