[muglo] Re: Storage
- From: Ilbert Walker <walker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:38:42 -0500
Faced with this decision recently, I chose the best (and costliest?)
solution.
A La Cie 160 GB Ext Firewire Drive from Mac Outpost.
Ilbert
On 27 Jan 2004, at 1:30 AM, Kathryn-Jane Hazel 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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