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rfrankl

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I have and like my Netgear wireless so I thought I would get the Netgear SC101 storage unit, but I see it only works with Windows. What do some of you guys use and how do you like it. Thanks!
 
I have a couple of Maxtor drives... one is Firewire-connected, and the other is network connected (i.e., it acts like its own computer on the network). They both work just fine.
 
I pulled a 40g Seagate out of my old PC, bought an enclosure, and reformatted it for OS X. It does what I need for now.
 
1 Lacie D2 250 gig. I'll be getting another one soon, possibly a 500 gigger, since I am converting a ton of old VHS tapes onto my computer.
 
I have an old Maxtor OneTouch external with the metal and blue design. I think it's 120GB, it's USB though. 🙁
 
My girlfriend.

I sit her down at night and backup by telling her 1101001001001001100010101. Then, if my Mac crashes I just ask her to repeat back what she'd heard. It's not the most efficient, but it works for me.
 
My girlfriend.

I sit her down at night and backup by telling her 1101001001001001100010101. Then, if my Mac crashes I just ask her to repeat back what she'd heard. It's not the most efficient, but it works for me.

Leopard will have a program called Time Machine which she will love!🙂
 
400GB MyBook firewire drive and an old 60GB drive stolen from a Compaq laptop that I made into an external firewire drive
 
With my laptop i have 2 160 lacie rugged mobil hard drives, one is used for backing up and the other for tv shows from itunes and ripped dvd's.
 
Two Vantec Nexstar 3 eSATA/USB enclosures, one with a 320GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 and one with a crap 250GB Maxtor DiamondMax (9 or 10, I forgot).
 
FW Drives (100x1, 120x4, 250x2) and IDE Drives (300x2).

The FW Drives I connect to all my Macs as needed to back up or access files.

The IDE drives I use to back my PM933 each week, or more often as needed, by creating a clone of the start up drive. I alternate between the drives and physically connect them when I do the back up.
 
I use an old Pentium III computer as a server that has six hard drives in it totaling 1.5 TB (1,500 GB) of storage. I run Linux on that server, which allows me very fine control over the performance (which is fantastic; you don't need much horsepower for a personal file server), and which allows me to run a secure FTP server so I can access my files from anywhere in the world.
 
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