Yeah, BUY.COM had this 80GB external USB2 drive on sale yesterday for
$169. I considered several of those as well.

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10323086&hdwt=0&loc=101

The DR routine would be a bit more complex if there was a complete
melt-down however... So I decided against it for now and decided to
continue to look at the tape drives.

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Good idea.  I expect to do these in the middle of the night, but that's
still important if you're doing 30 or 40 gb.  I'll go out & see if there
are any reviews out there.


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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, at 10:17am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm thinking of going to the USB2 external drive system for offsite
> storage ...

  Check the speed of the unit (throughput in actual use, not the speed
of the HDD, or the IDE interface, or the USB2 interface) before you make
a purchase.  Some of those things (the no-name stuff, generally) are
much slower than one might expect.

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