On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 10:57:40AM -0700, Joseph McAllister wrote:
> On Apr 4, 2009, at 23:46 , John Francis wrote:
>
>> Nowadays it's cheap enough to back up to portable hard drives,
>> rather than to CDs. If you pay $10 for a 50-pack of CDs that's
>> around $0.30/GB. At that price 250GB would cost you $75, which
>> is about what you pay for a 320GB 2.5" drive in a USB enclosure.
>> And, of course, it's a heck of a lot easier to search an external
>> drive than to search through 50 CDs.
>
> https://iomega-na-en.custhelp.com/rd?
> 1=AvcG~wpkDP8S4eLPGvce~yL~Jvkq~9r~&2=453
Yes, but that's not a 2.5" drive, nor is it powered by the USB.
I was thinking of something more like this:
http://shop4.frys.com/product/5677981?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
If you are prepared to shlep around a larger enclosure, and will
always have a power strip somewhere to plug in a wall wart, you
can get cheaper space (although 640GB at around that $75 mark is
a heck of a good deal).
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