[muglo] Re: Storage
- From: Eurogarth <eurogarth@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Muglo@Freelists. Org" <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:14:23 -0500
I forgot to add, since I'm ranting about Mac prices already, you could
always go buy an iPOD with firewire and use it to store your files as well!
BTW, seems the trend of using iPODs to swipe software is getting much worse.
With a 60GB iPOD, you can walk into any Mac Reseller and download the entire
contents of their demo machines over firewire in just a minute or less! A US
retailer reported over 500 incidents nation-wide (and those are just the
ones they know about) in a single day when Panther was launched!
Kathryn:
Which laptop are you using? Can the CD-drive be hot-swapped for a floppy?
Some can.
Other than that, you can buy a USB external floppy (very small and light)
for around $110.00.
Does your portable have a PCMCIA drive? You can get Compact Flash disks up
to 128MB B for around $75.00. This would be my choice as Compact disks are
pretty much plug-and-play with any portable or PDA if you buy the 19.00
adaptor that the flash fits into so it can go directly into any PCMCIA slot
Given that floppies and CDs are about the same price these days, I would
just use CDs (Office Max has them on sale right now at 100 for $49.00) or
even buy the more expensive "rewritable" CDs so just a couple could last you
a long time.
Given the price of "zips", I would never go that route
> 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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