[muglo] Re: Storage
- From: Rob Vanhooren <rob_vanhooren@xxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:22:41 -0500
Kath,
Suggest a USB-key drive. A few months back, my 256Mb was only $79 from a
hole-in-the-wall called OEM Computers, corner of Oxford and Gunn St. Compare
with $129 from Future$hop or $taples.
Much more portable than either a zip disk or (bulky) hard-drive. If you're
only after a few hundred Mb worth of space, it's quite useful. OTOH, if you
need multi-gigabytes of storage you're stuck with something like an external
HDD. OrangeLink, IOmega, or ADStech are the easiest on the pocketbook ;-)
Cheers,
R.
On Tuesday, January 27, 2004, at 01:30AM, Kathryn-Jane Hazel
<k.j.hazel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>Dear Muglo-ites:
>
>Now that I have a laptop that takes CDs rather than floppies, I need a
>different way of saving my files.
>
>I have had several suggestions from many quarters, and am trying to
>make up my mind as to which is best.
>
>I do mostly word-processing, and like to save my files every day, so
>saving to CDs is not an option, except for when I am finally finished
>with a piece of writing - which is almost never.
>
>I've been told that zip disks are on the way out, so that's no good.
>
>The latest suggestion is that I get an external Firewire hard drive,
>because it basically acts as a large floppy disk. If that's the case,
>I'm all for it. What does it look like? How much would it cost?
>
>I was also told that I might be able to set up iSync so that a given
>intervals, which I would set, my computer would synchronize any changed
>files and back up only those that had changes. Is that possible, or
>can that only take place between two computers?
>
>At any rate, the external hard drive sounds like the best solution for
>me. Hope it's not too expensive!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Kathryn
>
>
>
>
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