Aw shit. I can't figure out whether my Dell has an IDE drive. Prolly, though. That's a guuuud price.
We can come by between classes. Usually I use that time to copy over my class notes with a system of different colored pens. But it's been pointed out to me that that's, you know...insane.
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Spidra Webster - Mar 13, 2006 10:17:24 am PST #7520 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Jon B. - Mar 13, 2006 10:30:59 am PST #7521 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I just bought a 300GB Seagate Barracuda IDE drive from CompUSA for $150 less $50 in mail-in rebates ($100 net). I hate dealing with rebates, but the price was too good to pass up.
§ ita § - Mar 13, 2006 11:37:59 am PST #7522 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I need an external (USB2 or Firewire) drive of at least 200GB capacity. I had Firelite recommended to me, but I haven't found any of their drives that were that big.
I'd also love for it to be simple to back up both my PC and my Mac.
Gudanov - Mar 13, 2006 4:31:57 pm PST #7523 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
You could buy that $60 drive and get a USB enclosure.
Gris - Mar 13, 2006 5:16:03 pm PST #7524 of 10003
Hey. New board.
What Gud said. My $25 firewire/USB enclosure (it's for laptop HDs or I'd give you a link) works perfectly, and I think that's pretty much the norm.
Also, if you format the external HD with FAT32, it will work fine for both Windows and Mac uses, though part of the Mac data might get lost if you're trying to back up data that relies on Resource forks - however, very very few things do, these days, so I wouldn't worry about that. I'm using the commandline tool "rsyncbackup" (just a frontend to the unix rsync tool, very nicely designed) to do semi-regular syncs of my music, movies, documents, and so forth from my mac to a folder on the FAT32 disc, and I'm sure there are equivalent progs for Windows.
ETA: Of course, 3.5" HDs aren't very svelte. Those Firelite drives probably use 2.5" laptop HDs, like my enclusure does, but those are still pretty hard to get in sizes as big as 200 GB. If portability is not an option, 3.5" drive + enclosure is def' the best way to go.
ETA 2: Seagate makes a 180 GB 2.5" drive, but it's $330 on Other World Computing. I really don't think small + 200 GB + affordable is going to be possible for a while.
§ ita § - Mar 13, 2006 8:50:32 pm PST #7525 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I want backup software too, though. I'm not into managing full/incremental/whatevers. That's why I was leaning towards a bundled sort of solution.
But I have no idea how good the software that comes with those things is--if it's even worth it.
Gris - Mar 14, 2006 3:25:13 am PST #7526 of 10003
Hey. New board.
I very seriously doubt it comes with any software you couldn't just buy and STILL be cheaper, and in my experience software that comes bundled isn't generally the best available anyway. I'd do some research on backup software before going for a bundle.
§ ita § - Mar 14, 2006 3:53:04 am PST #7527 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I didn't even know there was HD to HD backup software on the market.
I will have to have a look.
Jon B. - Mar 14, 2006 4:28:48 am PST #7528 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The Seagate drive I just got came with some sort of backup software, but I didn't look at it because I already have Ghost (which I love).
§ ita § - Mar 14, 2006 4:33:56 am PST #7529 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I did have Ghost recommended. Maybe I should just go that way.