On Thu, 25 May 2006, Hans Fugal wrote:
It's time to play the hardware advice game again. I'm out of disk space. On my laptop, on my workstation, everywhere I turn. I'm too poor/cheap to go get a huge drive for the workstation. I'm definitely too poor/cheap to replace the drive in my laptop. So I'm thinking an external drive might be the way to go. Here's my criteria, in order of importance: - Price. Did I mention I'm cheap? - Decent speed, not necessarily bleeding edge high performance, but I will be compiling copious amounts of code on it daily. - Decent size. 10G would be plenty, 40G+ would be niiice - USB 2.0, because my workstation doesn't have firewire Powered through the usb port would be nice, if it's reliable. I thought this would be an easy thing to decide, but there seem to be a lot more factors at play, upon closer inspection. Disk speed, transfer rates, power issues, etc. So do any of you have recommendations/warnings?
I bought myself a 300GB external Maxtor Shared Storage drive. It has an ethernet port on is and anyone on my network can access it. I setup user accounts on it and use it to backup my hard drive. It uses samba so I just mount it in my OSX and use rsync to backup what I need. Very nice. I paid about $300 for it a year ago and just recently saw that it was down to about $150. Makes me crazy how fast prices drop. Anyway, this does not really fit your criteria, but perhaps it will give you more ideas.
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