March 18th, 2004, 01:25 PM
|
 |
General
|
|
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Canada
Posts: 3,227
Thanks: 7
Thanked 44 Times in 28 Posts
|
|
Re: OT: How Often Do You Back Up Your Files
Quote:
Originally posted by Atrocities:
What do you guys think about portable Hard Drives?
|
They are great, My brother has an 80gig external USB HD that he uses for backups. Actually it's one of those universal USB caddy units that can hold any standard PC IDE unit like a HD, ZipDrive, Floppy, even a removable HD unit. It simply has it's own power cord and hooks up to the PC via a USB cable. Plug it in and it works like any other drive. It appears in 'explorer' as "USB External Drive (F " (or what ever letter follows the Last Local drive on your system.)
..and they are portable enough to take with you anywhere. Now that is a very good thing. The only downside is that the transfer rate is something like 128kb/sec (aka 10 megabits per second) but for backup, that's not too bad.
Nuf said, Cheers!
[ March 18, 2004, 11:27: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ] |