Re: DVD back ups? OSX-free

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>]

At 17:54 -0400 10/22/02, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
> As I read more about new Mac options I see a little
> device called iPod MP3 Player. Its storage capacity
> is 5 Gb ($300), 10 GB ($400) or 20 Gb (?), depending
> on what is purchased. It is natural to ask the same
> question. Can this portable device be used to store
> documents and application programs?
> Ludwik Kowalski
Ludwik, if all your interested in is a means of storing back-up data,
I suggest a high capacity Firewire hard drive. I just picked one up
for that purpose, 120 GB for under $250. I plan on using it for
digitizing some videos before transferring them to DVD, in addition,
since even with the contents of three computers copied to this drive,
I still have about 75 GB left over.

If you want portability, then get one of the pocket-sized drives.
They don't have quite the capacity of the one I got and they're more
expensive, but they are more portable (smaller, lighter). Since DVDs
only hold about 5 GB or less, I doubt that using them as backups will
be all that practical, unless you are backing up from what is a
pretty small hard drive in today's terms.

Hugh
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