External Hard drives

[PRC1964]

I've just taken delivery of a couple of these: http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx...avigationKey=0

So far they seem excellent and very cheap for 1.5 Tb.

[PAH]

I've just taken delivery of a couple of these: http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx...avigationKey=0

So far they seem excellent and very cheap for 1.5 Tb.

With 1.5TB to lose I'd want two as well! One to back up the other.

For mass storage (i.e. terabytes) I went for a Windows Home Server solution. Not very portable though!

[PRC1964]

With 1.5TB to lose I'd want two as well! One to back up the other.

For mass storage (i.e. terabytes) I went for a Windows Home Server solution. Not very portable though!

That's exactly why I bought two. It's nice that they are small enough to lug to a client site if needed.

[TheFaQQer]

I've just taken delivery of a couple of these: http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx...avigationKey=0

So far they seem excellent and very cheap for 1.5 Tb.

I don't think even Zeity's collection of .flv files requires 3TB of disk space

[PRC1964]

I don't think even Zeity's collection of .flv files requires 3TB of disk space

Sadly my collection of non .flv data does require that much.

My plan B now runs at 2 Tb though I reckon I could probably ditch about a third of that if I wasn't so anal about never deleting data.

The Maxtors are not my only backup though.

[Fred Bloggs]

I have been using a Buffalo Network drive connected by LAN cable to my router at home as a back up device for 5 PC's connected to the LAN by cable and wireless. So far it has been very reliable but the bundled back up software is a bit primitive. It works well under Windows XP but I have been unable to access the device with the PC's booted into Linux. Linux recognises the drive as a "Windows network" but will not open the drive.