On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Denise <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you! > I am nervous about throwing away data, when I go to delete. > As I have regrettably lost important stuff over the years.
Amen. > The $30 unit you > recommended... Does it really work? It should, as long as you have (or buy) a spare hard drive to put in it. (That's the catch.) I'm not familiar with that particular brand, though. Macally also makes a variety of enclosures which seem to be rated better than other brands, at least on NewEgg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007705&IsNodeId=1&srchInDesc=1394&page=1&bop=And&ActiveSearchResult=True&Order=RATING&PageSize=20 Something like that (Firewire 400 drive) is probably the way to go if you want to keep those files accessible to the eMac and don't want/have a file server. If it's just important to back them up and you don't need them on the eMac any more, I would use the macbook because that will get your files moved without any additional hardware and you can use more modern/cheaper external USB drives with it. CDs are OK as a long term backup/storage medium, but it gets hard with lots of data. I find it much easier to have redundant hard drive backups than to keep track of what is on which CD and then store the dozens of them it would take. It's also more time intensive to burn and I'm lazy like that. So that's another $0.02 from someone else... hope it helps. :) NRH -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
