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Re: [BackupPC-users] Choice of b/u drive
2009-01-05 18:51:03
If you are going external, just go with eSata. You can get a PCMCIA or Expresscard with esata ports. USB2 is painfully slow. Firewire400 is limited to 50MB/s and has some CPU overhead. eSata is cheap, fast, and available.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:55 PM, colinc <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:
Thanks again guys.
Even if it is only the low-end FW that Apple drop I'll probably get caught - I have a G4 iBook that will need replacing in due course [I still need to run Classic for some very old files, but one day I'll be free and any MacBook will do then].
If I buy a ready-made RAID it would be the WD 2x1TB array.
My current internal is 500Gb, only 150Gb used, so I hope my first b/u won't take 5 days - I think I'd have noticed if it had taken that long to my current 250Gb LaCie which only gives me a month or two of b/s - the latter at the moment.
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