Re: Recommended hard drive for Time Machine ?
Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that with Time Machine you need an external hard drive plugged into your Mac, but can someone please confirm that Time Machine will work just as well with a hard drive plugged into an Airport Extreme Base Station? Be very careful. I don't have Leopard, but the word I'm hearing is that this exact setup was in the feature list as recently as one week ago, but is now not a feature of shipping versions. I can't confirm this, but do check carefully. The feature may be added back later, if it was removed this late in the process. Lara -- http://viv.id.au/blog/ This address is for mailing list mail only. Please send personal email to lara at panix dot com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended hard drive for Time Machine ?
I have had bad experiences with LaCie from the pov of the drives and Mac compatibility and customer service (there is none). The drive was one of the Porsche designs - I would advise against them. I am getting a G-Tech drive for Time Machine: http:// www.provis.com.au/shop/index.php?cPath=69 Best wishes edward On 27/10/2007, at 8:33 AM, Steven wrote: If I decide to upgrade to Leopard, which I guess I will sooner or later so it might as well be sooner, then I quite like the idea of Time Machine. I have three Macs (MacBook Pro, G4 PowerBook, and a G4 iBook) running on a wireless network, plus Apple TV, and historically my back up solution has been to manually copy my critical files from one Mac to another periodically, but inevitably never as frequent as I should because it's a pain. I understand that with Time Machine you need an external hard drive plugged into your Mac, but can someone please confirm that Time Machine will work just as well with a hard drive plugged into an Airport Extreme Base Station? And if I install Leopard on all three Macs, would all of them automatically back up to a single hard drive plugged into Airport Extreme via Time Machine? Assuming yes to all of that, is there a clear leader in hard drive options based on capacity and value for money? I see at the Apple web site that in terms of size consideration alone, the largest seems to be a LaCie 2 terabyte for A$1,199. But a 2-3 month waiting time?! www.dstore.com.au seems to have them in stock for $1,062.05 plus $14.95 delivery, http://www.digitalyes.com.au has them for $940.40 plus $15.80 delivery. Is LaCie a good brand I terms of value for money. Maybe 2 terabyte is overkill for my purposes and the 1 terabyte Lacie Big Disk Extreme option is good, which seems to sell as low as $406. I would have thought you get scale economies buying bigger disks, but seemingly not. Any thoughts and tips read with interest. Regards, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended hard drive for Time Machine ?
Thanks Edward. Your warning prompted me to go search out some other product reviews, eg http://www.amazon.com/LaCie-Extreme-External-Interface-300801U/dp/customer-r eviews/B000AZFYQ0/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful/002-0167514-1367232?ie=UTF8custo mer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDatecoliid=showViewpoints=1customer-revi ews.start=1colid=#customerReviews ..and I've read enough now to put me off of Lacie. Perhaps I'll rephrase my original query with 'which company makes the best quality hard drives' and then pick a size from there. Regards, Steven On 27/10/07 9:03 AM, Edward Arrowsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had bad experiences with LaCie from the pov of the drives and Mac compatibility and customer service (there is none). The drive was one of the Porsche designs - I would advise against them. I am getting a G-Tech drive for Time Machine: http:// www.provis.com.au/shop/index.php?cPath=69 Best wishes edward On 27/10/2007, at 8:33 AM, Steven wrote: If I decide to upgrade to Leopard, which I guess I will sooner or later so it might as well be sooner, then I quite like the idea of Time Machine. I have three Macs (MacBook Pro, G4 PowerBook, and a G4 iBook) running on a wireless network, plus Apple TV, and historically my back up solution has been to manually copy my critical files from one Mac to another periodically, but inevitably never as frequent as I should because it's a pain. I understand that with Time Machine you need an external hard drive plugged into your Mac, but can someone please confirm that Time Machine will work just as well with a hard drive plugged into an Airport Extreme Base Station? And if I install Leopard on all three Macs, would all of them automatically back up to a single hard drive plugged into Airport Extreme via Time Machine? Assuming yes to all of that, is there a clear leader in hard drive options based on capacity and value for money? I see at the Apple web site that in terms of size consideration alone, the largest seems to be a LaCie 2 terabyte for A$1,199. But a 2-3 month waiting time?! www.dstore.com.au seems to have them in stock for $1,062.05 plus $14.95 delivery, http://www.digitalyes.com.au has them for $940.40 plus $15.80 delivery. Is LaCie a good brand I terms of value for money. Maybe 2 terabyte is overkill for my purposes and the 1 terabyte Lacie Big Disk Extreme option is good, which seems to sell as low as $406. I would have thought you get scale economies buying bigger disks, but seemingly not. Any thoughts and tips read with interest. Regards, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended hard drive for Time Machine ?
Hi All I'll weigh in on this, seeing as I can help :o) Western Digital make some great hard drives, and I've been very happy with them. There are a few ones to do this:- A Sarotech Firewire case with a Western Digital Hard Drive in it (Depending on size wanted and required.) This come with an internal power supply, so uses the normal power cable. Great for moving around (and it has a carry bag as well). The beauty with these are that you can get into them to check things, and change hard drives down the track should you want something bigger. Most WD drives come with either 3 or 5 year warranty now, and the Sarotech cases are generally 2 years warranty. Western Digital also then do there own style drives called MyBook. Very nice units ranging from about 320Gb through to 2TB. You can either run these as RAID 0 or 1, so most of them can either be the full size drive (eg 2TB) or mirrored for double safe backup (eg 2TB, but shows up as 1TB). And of course,..my plug :o) Any of the above drives I can supply, so if anyone did want something by all means drop me an email and I'm happy to price it up for you. (Will be next week as I'm away for this weekend after this email) :o) But, I've been selling Sarotech cases and drives since I started doing MacWizardry and they are fantastic! One of the reasons I've kept supplying them all this time. And now that WD do their own style to complement this. it's great! But that's just my opinion :o) Hope that helps! Enjoy!! Kind Regards Daniel On 27/10/2007 9:00 AM, Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Edward. Your warning prompted me to go search out some other product reviews, eg http://www.amazon.com/LaCie-Extreme-External-Interface-300801U/dp/customer-r eviews/B000AZFYQ0/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful/002-0167514-1367232?ie=UTF8custo mer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDatecoliid=showViewpoints=1customer-revi ews.start=1colid=#customerReviews ..and I've read enough now to put me off of Lacie. Perhaps I'll rephrase my original query with 'which company makes the best quality hard drives' and then pick a size from there. Regards, Steven On 27/10/07 9:03 AM, Edward Arrowsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had bad experiences with LaCie from the pov of the drives and Mac compatibility and customer service (there is none). The drive was one of the Porsche designs - I would advise against them. I am getting a G-Tech drive for Time Machine: http:// www.provis.com.au/shop/index.php?cPath=69 Best wishes edward On 27/10/2007, at 8:33 AM, Steven wrote: If I decide to upgrade to Leopard, which I guess I will sooner or later so it might as well be sooner, then I quite like the idea of Time Machine. I have three Macs (MacBook Pro, G4 PowerBook, and a G4 iBook) running on a wireless network, plus Apple TV, and historically my back up solution has been to manually copy my critical files from one Mac to another periodically, but inevitably never as frequent as I should because it's a pain. I understand that with Time Machine you need an external hard drive plugged into your Mac, but can someone please confirm that Time Machine will work just as well with a hard drive plugged into an Airport Extreme Base Station? And if I install Leopard on all three Macs, would all of them automatically back up to a single hard drive plugged into Airport Extreme via Time Machine? Assuming yes to all of that, is there a clear leader in hard drive options based on capacity and value for money? I see at the Apple web site that in terms of size consideration alone, the largest seems to be a LaCie 2 terabyte for A$1,199. But a 2-3 month waiting time?! www.dstore.com.au seems to have them in stock for $1,062.05 plus $14.95 delivery, http://www.digitalyes.com.au has them for $940.40 plus $15.80 delivery. Is LaCie a good brand I terms of value for money. Maybe 2 terabyte is overkill for my purposes and the 1 terabyte Lacie Big Disk Extreme option is good, which seems to sell as low as $406. I would have thought you get scale economies buying bigger disks, but seemingly not. Any thoughts and tips read with interest. Regards, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended hard drive for Time Machine ?
Yeah, I'm pretty happy with my 1TB WD MyBook. One thing to look out for is that WD label their MyBook units slightly differently depending on the interface. For example my triple interface (USB2.0, FW400, FW800) unit was called a MyBook Pro Edition II. They have apparently brought out some new editions also, check out: http://www.wdmybook.com/en/editions/ HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 27/10/07 9:16 AM, Daniel Kerr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I'll weigh in on this, seeing as I can help :o) Western Digital make some great hard drives, and I've been very happy with them. There are a few ones to do this:- A Sarotech Firewire case with a Western Digital Hard Drive in it (Depending on size wanted and required.) This come with an internal power supply, so uses the normal power cable. Great for moving around (and it has a carry bag as well). The beauty with these are that you can get into them to check things, and change hard drives down the track should you want something bigger. Most WD drives come with either 3 or 5 year warranty now, and the Sarotech cases are generally 2 years warranty. Western Digital also then do there own style drives called MyBook. Very nice units ranging from about 320Gb through to 2TB. You can either run these as RAID 0 or 1, so most of them can either be the full size drive (eg 2TB) or mirrored for double safe backup (eg 2TB, but shows up as 1TB). And of course,..my plug :o) Any of the above drives I can supply, so if anyone did want something by all means drop me an email and I'm happy to price it up for you. (Will be next week as I'm away for this weekend after this email) :o) But, I've been selling Sarotech cases and drives since I started doing MacWizardry and they are fantastic! One of the reasons I've kept supplying them all this time. And now that WD do their own style to complement this. it's great! But that's just my opinion :o) Hope that helps! Enjoy!! Kind Regards Daniel On 27/10/2007 9:00 AM, Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Edward. Your warning prompted me to go search out some other product reviews, eg http://www.amazon.com/LaCie-Extreme-External-Interface-300801U/dp/customer-r eviews/B000AZFYQ0/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful/002-0167514-1367232?ie=UTF8custo mer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDatecoliid=showViewpoints=1customer-revi ews.start=1colid=#customerReviews ..and I've read enough now to put me off of Lacie. Perhaps I'll rephrase my original query with 'which company makes the best quality hard drives' and then pick a size from there. Regards, Steven On 27/10/07 9:03 AM, Edward Arrowsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had bad experiences with LaCie from the pov of the drives and Mac compatibility and customer service (there is none). The drive was one of the Porsche designs - I would advise against them. I am getting a G-Tech drive for Time Machine: http:// www.provis.com.au/shop/index.php?cPath=69 Best wishes edward On 27/10/2007, at 8:33 AM, Steven wrote: If I decide to upgrade to Leopard, which I guess I will sooner or later so it might as well be sooner, then I quite like the idea of Time Machine. I have three Macs (MacBook Pro, G4 PowerBook, and a G4 iBook) running on a wireless network, plus Apple TV, and historically my back up solution has been to manually copy my critical files from one Mac to another periodically, but inevitably never as frequent as I should because it's a pain. I understand that with Time Machine you need an external hard drive plugged into your Mac, but can someone please confirm that Time Machine will work just as well with a hard drive plugged into an Airport Extreme Base Station? And if I install Leopard on all three Macs, would all of them automatically back up to a single hard drive plugged into Airport Extreme via Time Machine? Assuming yes to all of that, is there a clear leader in hard drive options based on capacity and value for money? I see at the Apple web site that in terms of size consideration alone, the largest seems to be a LaCie 2 terabyte for A$1,199. But a 2-3 month waiting time?! www.dstore.com.au seems to have them in stock for $1,062.05 plus $14.95 delivery, http://www.digitalyes.com.au has them for $940.40 plus $15.80 delivery. Is LaCie a good brand I terms of value for money. Maybe 2 terabyte is overkill for my purposes and the 1 terabyte Lacie Big Disk Extreme option is good, which seems to sell as low as $406. I would have thought you get scale economies buying bigger disks, but seemingly not. Any thoughts and tips read with interest. Regards, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL
Re: Recommended hard drive for Time Machine ?
Hi I'll second Daniel's recommendations... I got a Sarotech Case from him some time back and teamed it with a WD Drive for Audio Recording Backup Dutiesgreat combo...the Sarotech cases are impressive... Cheers Neil On 27/10/2007, at 9:16 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi All I'll weigh in on this, seeing as I can help :o) Western Digital make some great hard drives, and I've been very happy with them. There are a few ones to do this:- A Sarotech Firewire case with a Western Digital Hard Drive in it (Depending on size wanted and required.) This come with an internal power supply, so uses the normal power cable. Great for moving around (and it has a carry bag as well). The beauty with these are that you can get into them to check things, and change hard drives down the track should you want something bigger. Most WD drives come with either 3 or 5 year warranty now, and the Sarotech cases are generally 2 years warranty. Western Digital also then do there own style drives called MyBook. Very nice units ranging from about 320Gb through to 2TB. You can either run these as RAID 0 or 1, so most of them can either be the full size drive (eg 2TB) or mirrored for double safe backup (eg 2TB, but shows up as 1TB). And of course,..my plug :o) Any of the above drives I can supply, so if anyone did want something by all means drop me an email and I'm happy to price it up for you. (Will be next week as I'm away for this weekend after this email) :o) But, I've been selling Sarotech cases and drives since I started doing MacWizardry and they are fantastic! One of the reasons I've kept supplying them all this time. And now that WD do their own style to complement this. it's great! But that's just my opinion :o) Hope that helps! Enjoy!! Kind Regards Daniel On 27/10/2007 9:00 AM, Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Edward. Your warning prompted me to go search out some other product reviews, eg http://www.amazon.com/LaCie-Extreme-External-Interface-300801U/dp/ customer-r eviews/B000AZFYQ0/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful/002-0167514-1367232? ie=UTF8custo mer-reviews.sort%5Fby=- SubmissionDatecoliid=showViewpoints=1customer-revi ews.start=1colid=#customerReviews ..and I've read enough now to put me off of Lacie. Perhaps I'll rephrase my original query with 'which company makes the best quality hard drives' and then pick a size from there. Regards, Steven On 27/10/07 9:03 AM, Edward Arrowsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had bad experiences with LaCie from the pov of the drives and Mac compatibility and customer service (there is none). The drive was one of the Porsche designs - I would advise against them. I am getting a G-Tech drive for Time Machine: http:// www.provis.com.au/shop/index.php?cPath=69 Best wishes edward On 27/10/2007, at 8:33 AM, Steven wrote: If I decide to upgrade to Leopard, which I guess I will sooner or later so it might as well be sooner, then I quite like the idea of Time Machine. I have three Macs (MacBook Pro, G4 PowerBook, and a G4 iBook) running on a wireless network, plus Apple TV, and historically my back up solution has been to manually copy my critical files from one Mac to another periodically, but inevitably never as frequent as I should because it's a pain. I understand that with Time Machine you need an external hard drive plugged into your Mac, but can someone please confirm that Time Machine will work just as well with a hard drive plugged into an Airport Extreme Base Station? And if I install Leopard on all three Macs, would all of them automatically back up to a single hard drive plugged into Airport Extreme via Time Machine? Assuming yes to all of that, is there a clear leader in hard drive options based on capacity and value for money? I see at the Apple web site that in terms of size consideration alone, the largest seems to be a LaCie 2 terabyte for A$1,199. But a 2-3 month waiting time?! www.dstore.com.au seems to have them in stock for $1,062.05 plus $14.95 delivery, http://www.digitalyes.com.au has them for $940.40 plus $15.80 delivery. Is LaCie a good brand I terms of value for money. Maybe 2 terabyte is overkill for my purposes and the 1 terabyte Lacie Big Disk Extreme option is good, which seems to sell as low as $406. I would have thought you get scale economies buying bigger disks, but seemingly not. Any thoughts and tips read with interest. Regards, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -
Re: Recommended hard drive for Time Machine ?
We have 4 of the Sarotech cases bought from Daniel and we love them - not having an annoying power brick dangling off the back of the drive makes them so much more portable. They use a standard kettle cord power cable. We tend to prefer Seagate and Hitachi drives rather than Western Digital to put in those Sarotech cases from the reliability point of view (I've had quite a few WD chambers fail), but Western Digital is often a fair bit cheaper for a given capacity so we've often gone that route. -Mart On 27/10/2007, at 10:16 AM, Tuchwood wrote: Hi I'll second Daniel's recommendations... I got a Sarotech Case from him some time back and teamed it with a WD Drive for Audio Recording Backup Dutiesgreat combo...the Sarotech cases are impressive... Cheers Neil On 27/10/2007, at 9:16 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi All I'll weigh in on this, seeing as I can help :o) Western Digital make some great hard drives, and I've been very happy with them. There are a few ones to do this:- A Sarotech Firewire case with a Western Digital Hard Drive in it (Depending on size wanted and required.) This come with an internal power supply, so uses the normal power cable. Great for moving around (and it has a carry bag as well). The beauty with these are that you can get into them to check things, and change hard drives down the track should you want something bigger. Most WD drives come with either 3 or 5 year warranty now, and the Sarotech cases are generally 2 years warranty. Western Digital also then do there own style drives called MyBook. Very nice units ranging from about 320Gb through to 2TB. You can either run these as RAID 0 or 1, so most of them can either be the full size drive (eg 2TB) or mirrored for double safe backup (eg 2TB, but shows up as 1TB). And of course,..my plug :o) Any of the above drives I can supply, so if anyone did want something by all means drop me an email and I'm happy to price it up for you. (Will be next week as I'm away for this weekend after this email) :o) But, I've been selling Sarotech cases and drives since I started doing MacWizardry and they are fantastic! One of the reasons I've kept supplying them all this time. And now that WD do their own style to complement this. it's great! But that's just my opinion :o) Hope that helps! Enjoy!! Kind Regards Daniel On 27/10/2007 9:00 AM, Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Edward. Your warning prompted me to go search out some other product reviews, eg http://www.amazon.com/LaCie-Extreme-External-Interface-300801U/dp/customer-r eviews/B000AZFYQ0/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful/002-0167514-1367232? ie=UTF8custo mer-reviews.sort%5Fby=- SubmissionDatecoliid=showViewpoints=1customer-revi ews.start=1colid=#customerReviews ..and I've read enough now to put me off of Lacie. Perhaps I'll rephrase my original query with 'which company makes the best quality hard drives' and then pick a size from there. Regards, Steven On 27/10/07 9:03 AM, Edward Arrowsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had bad experiences with LaCie from the pov of the drives and Mac compatibility and customer service (there is none). The drive was one of the Porsche designs - I would advise against them. I am getting a G-Tech drive for Time Machine: http:// www.provis.com.au/shop/index.php?cPath=69 Best wishes edward On 27/10/2007, at 8:33 AM, Steven wrote: If I decide to upgrade to Leopard, which I guess I will sooner or later so it might as well be sooner, then I quite like the idea of Time Machine. I have three Macs (MacBook Pro, G4 PowerBook, and a G4 iBook) running on a wireless network, plus Apple TV, and historically my back up solution has been to manually copy my critical files from one Mac to another periodically, but inevitably never as frequent as I should because it's a pain. I understand that with Time Machine you need an external hard drive plugged into your Mac, but can someone please confirm that Time Machine will work just as well with a hard drive plugged into an Airport Extreme Base Station? And if I install Leopard on all three Macs, would all of them automatically back up to a single hard drive plugged into Airport Extreme via Time Machine? Assuming yes to all of that, is there a clear leader in hard drive options based on capacity and value for money? I see at the Apple web site that in terms of size consideration alone, the largest seems to be a LaCie 2 terabyte for A$1,199. But a 2-3 month waiting time?! www.dstore.com.au seems to have them in stock for $1,062.05 plus $14.95 delivery, http://www.digitalyes.com.au has them for $940.40 plus $15.80 delivery. Is LaCie a good brand I terms of value for money. Maybe 2 terabyte is overkill for my purposes and the 1 terabyte Lacie Big Disk Extreme option is good, which seems to sell as low as $406. I would have thought you get scale economies buying bigger disks, but seemingly not. Any
