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External disk drives and portability
I'm planning to use external disk drives for backup. I'm looking at
the nicely packaged enclosures from Maxtor, Western Digital, and Seagate. I keep one set of backups "offsite," and this is giving me a bit of a worry. Roughly once a month, I hand-carry backup media from my PC to the "offsite" location. On the return trip, I hand-carry some media from the "offsite" locaton back to my PC. I don't know how wise it is to carry around 3.5 inch disk drives all the time. These drives are designed for desktop use, after all. Would it be wiser to use 2.5 inch drives? These are more expensive, but these are designed for use in notebook computers. Perhaps they are better able to handle the rigors of transportation? Thanks for any suggestions. Recommendations for specific products would also be gratefully accepted. -- David Arnstein -- Spammers: thank you for training my filters. You are all doing a wonderful job. Keep up the good work! |
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David Arnstein wrote in message ... I'm planning to use external disk drives for backup. I'm looking at the nicely packaged enclosures from Maxtor, Western Digital, and Seagate. I keep one set of backups "offsite," and this is giving me a bit of a worry. Roughly once a month, I hand-carry backup media from my PC to the "offsite" location. On the return trip, I hand-carry some media from the "offsite" locaton back to my PC. I don't know how wise it is to carry around 3.5 inch disk drives all the time. These drives are designed for desktop use, after all. Would it be wiser to use 2.5 inch drives? Yes. These are more expensive, but these are designed for use in notebook computers. Perhaps they are better able to handle the rigors of transportation? Yes. Thanks for any suggestions. Recommendations for specific products would also be gratefully accepted. You'd get a lot more protection against dropping if you not only use 2.5" drives but also carry them in those decent cases with stiff foam in them that are used for cameras etc as well, still inside the case supplied with the drive too. |
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I'm planning to use external disk drives for backup. I'm looking at
the nicely packaged enclosures from Maxtor, Western Digital, and Seagate. I am transitioning from VXA-2 tape to the Western Digital USB2 200 GB external drive. Works very well. Make sure that you have a power transformer, USB cord, etc at your offsite. Be sure to get at least double the capacity of your backup. This drive comes formatted FAT32. I still have yet to figure out how they formatted it that way since the biggest FAT32 drive is suppose to be 128 GB. I don't know how wise it is to carry around 3.5 inch disk drives all the time. These drives are designed for desktop use, after all. If you drop it, test it and if it fails, throw it away and redo your backup as soon as possible. At least you are not carrying a box of 20 nine track tapes (been there, done that, got the tshirt). Lynn |
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"Malcolm Weir" wrote in message ... 1. Environmental. Neither drive type has the edge in this, although there exist more and better enclosures for 2.5in drives than for 3.5in drives... but as a general rule either drive type in a ziplock bag will be pretty safe from any environmental issue! ... and on this subject. Watch out for condensation of you bring the drive from a cold storage environment to a warm room. |
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