In article <siegman-16BC48.14113729072008@news.stanford.edu>, AES <siegman@stanford.edu> wrote:
> In article <290720081011083345%jimsgibson@gmail.com>, > Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > If you purchase an external firewire drive from a Mac-oriented vendor, > > such as <http://www.macsales.com>, it will come already formatted for > > Mac use. > > > > For backup software, I would recommend Super Duper! or Carbon Copy > > Cloner. > > > > Yes! > > 1) Buy one, or even two, small "bus-powered" FireWire "pocket drives", > maybe 80 GB each, unless your internal drive is bigger than that. > ("Bus-powered" means no separate "power supply brick" is needed; these > little drives are powered directly from your computer through the > FireWire cable -- very handy! "Pocket drives" means they're the size of > a small paperback book and can be easily moved around or put in a > drawer.)
One caveat. The mechanisms in these units are notebook drives. They tend to be significantly slower than self-powered desktop drives. They're also more expensive than 3.5" drives for any given capacity.
So, actually, two caveats.
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