On 26 Feb2005, at 12:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unless you are going to carry an iPod sized external drive that is
powered
via firewire you are adding significant weight and bulk to your
suitcase.
I had in mind something like this:
On Feb 28, 2005, at 14:11, Peter Saint James wrote:
I had in mind something like this:
http://www.cooldrives.com/usb2018minpa.html
Do people on this list have experience with it?
Not this model, nor that brand, but I have a tiny LaCie Mobile Hard
Drive which works very nicely:
On 2/26/05 6:41 AM, Peter Saint James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm assessing back-up strategies to use while doing some extended
traveling. It seems that a portable external hard drive might be
better than trying to carry a stack of DVDs. Or is there a better
solution?
One issue I'm
Hard drives have metal cases, which will prevent a magnet from doing
any real damage (unless you're taking it through an MRI machine, or
something similar).
Personally, I'd go for both: keep regular backups on the hard drive,
and duplicate backups of the most important stuff on CD or DVD.
At 11:16 PM +1100 2/26/05, Ben Dyer wrote:
Hard drives have metal cases, which will prevent a magnet from doing
any real damage (unless you're taking it through an MRI machine, or
something similar).
But the cases are not made of magnetic material (aluminum and other
stuff) so they don't
