Re: External, USB hard drives

2005-06-25 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Steven Bowers wrote: > Any comments on the Buslink drives? I found a site selling both 1.1 > and 2.0 drives for a some-what reasonable price. Seems like all the > USB 2.0 stuff is 120GB or greater and $100 and up. Since I'm primarily > backing up about 1MB of data I'm not sure

Re: External, USB hard drives

2005-06-24 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Friday, June 24, Steven Bowers wrote: > > Any comments on the Buslink drives? I found a site selling both 1.1 > and 2.0 drives for a some-what reasonable price. Seems like all the > USB 2.0 stuff is 120GB or greater and $100 and up. Since I'm primarily > backing up about 1MB of data I'm not sur

Re: External, USB hard drives

2005-06-24 Thread Steven Bowers
Any comments on the Buslink drives? I found a site selling both 1.1 and 2.0 drives for a some-what reasonable price. Seems like all the USB 2.0 stuff is 120GB or greater and $100 and up. Since I'm primarily backing up about 1MB of data I'm not sure I need that much capacity Any suggestions on somet

Re: External, USB hard drives

2005-06-24 Thread Jon Drews
On 6/23/05, Steven Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to attach an external USB hard drive to my 3.7 machine so > that I can back various files on a scheduled basis. Not having used a > USB drive before thought I would ask here about them first. I am using a Seagate 80 GB USB 2.0 hard

Re: External, USB hard drives

2005-06-24 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Steven Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > speaking are they all compatible? Are there specific brands/models to > > stay away from? > Most USB2.0 drive 'bays' will work, however be aware: Many of the drive 'bays' apparently only work with a DO

Re: External, USB hard drives

2005-06-24 Thread shanejp
Quoting Steven Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > speaking are they all compatible? Are there specific brands/models to > stay away from? I have a USB2/Firewire combo unit based on the Prolific PL-3507 chipset. It is problematic and doing a search for it with Google finds that many other people have d

Re: External, USB hard drives

2005-06-23 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 07:55:27PM -0700, Steven Bowers wrote: > I'd like to attach an external USB hard drive to my 3.7 machine so > that I can back various files on a scheduled basis. Not having used a > USB drive before thought I would ask here about them first. Generally > speaking are they all

External, USB hard drives

2005-06-23 Thread Steven Bowers
I'd like to attach an external USB hard drive to my 3.7 machine so that I can back various files on a scheduled basis. Not having used a USB drive before thought I would ask here about them first. Generally speaking are they all compatible? Are there specific brands/models to stay away from? Steve