Mark, I like the 2.5" hdd external enclosures with usb 2 (or firewire).
The 2.5" drives are rugged, portable, but a little dearer than 3.5" ones. The one I source is around $150 for the enclosure, plus the cost of the hdd (I use 40gb). With Win2k and XP, no drivers needed, and with XP you don't get the surprise removal of hardware messages. Also on most pc's no power is needed - it draws from the usb connection. Format them as NTFS so you can backup to a single large file. Also, I strongly recommend a raid card and 2 mirrored drives as well for your main storage. regards, Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 15 July 2003 4:45 p.m. > To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic > Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Specs for development Machine > > > Hi Guys > Got back to the office after being out all day to see > squillions of "Specs for > Development Machine" messages 8-) > Pity the thread went off the rails part way down the track - > but thanks very much to > those who had suggestions. > > BTW what are people using as backup media these days? My > regular back up is a > a bit over a Gig and I have been stacking them up on a couple > of removable 6 Gig > hard drives. I loke the idea of being able to directly > access backups, without having > to restore them. Is there now a better option? > > Mark > On 15 Jul 2003 at 12:37, Kurt at DBC wrote: > > > Paul Eggleton wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Monday, 14 July 2003 7:55 p.m.: > > > I would recommend that you get a quality power supply > whether you have a > > > UPS or not. > > > > ObHomer: mmmm, hardware wishlists.... > > > > Raid cards can be had for under a hundy now, and drives are > cheap enough > > and xp/2k have some kind of raid support built in, so get 2 > drives and > > never be afraid of losing one again. > > As for your monitor get a second : make changes on one, > view results on > > the other mmm... > > Agree with Moisez tho', first thing is to get as much ram > as possible. > > 512 is cheap enough to get 2. > > And for the best bang-for-buckness AMD's stomp all over Intel. For > > dependability the reverse is prolly true, so for desktop : > I'd go for > > the mid-range Intel over top-of-line AMD unless you need absolute > > performance. > > > > Cheers, Kurt. > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" > > Web Archive at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/ > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/ > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.500 / Virus Database: 298 - Release Date: 10/07/2003 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/
