External hard-drives?
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- build
Used for:
01: Backing up work?
02: Running applications from [and saving work on your local hard drive]?
03: iTunes library?
04: All of the above?
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- quamb0
get a normal hd, think they are 3.5" - and an external case. wabang. all done.
saves dollars.
if want crossplatform, format as pc - tho formatting for mac, on a mac, works alot better.
- tara|gee0
not 2... i also put all my stock cds on there so i can search more easilly :P cuz im lazy
- Donvitoviti0
iTunes
movies
backup
photosplus its smart to back up the backups on DVD.. hard drives will fail sooner or later
- designerror0
Backup, iTunes, Stock cd's and Fonts
- tara|gee0
i used to do that donv and wouldnt u know th e one dvd i needed was scratched to hellll!l :_(
- toe_knee0
I keep loosing the connection from my external drive its a pain in the ass, drops off every 10 minutes and needs to be rebooted. anyone come acroos thiis and know a way to fi it?
- tomkat0
my ext HD died once. pain in the ass bigtime.
use DVD RAM now for backing up, ext HD could hold some data+iTunes Lib, yes.
- rabattski0
yep. i use my external firewire drive as backup + bootdisk (os x) in case os dies on my machines i can still boot. and once in a while i'll burn old stuff on cd and delete it.
- ribit0
We backup on Firewire drive... no need for DVD backups (assuming two drives dont fail on same day).
- jox0
There are cases for internal hd's to run as externals??
Somebody please enlighten me with links!
- toe_knee0
every external hard drive is just the same as an internal one but with its own casing
- quamb0
read this thread wrong- soz - thought was asking about where/how/what to get for hd.
- build0
Thank you all.
Do use it to back work up on, iTunes library and as an osx boot disk.
Don't use it for applications.
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- rabattski0
yep and if you have firewire def. go for a firewire drive, firewire 800 if your hardware allows it. you can't boot from usb as far as i know.
- elms0
how big is the speed difference between usb2/firewire?
- rabattski0
copy/paste:
"FireWire, also known ass IEEE 1394, was originally developed by Apple and has a maximum bandwidth of 400Mbps. USB2.0, developed by the USB Implementers Forum (including Compaq, HP, and Intel) has a maximum bandwidth of 480Mbps. However as is often the case when Intel is involved, the numbers are a bit deceiving.
FireWire can sustain peak throughput indefinitely, without taxing your CPU, and is inherently peer-to-peer. USB2.0 is not inherently peer-to-peer and requires significantly more CPU to maximize throughput. 1394 is generally regarded to be a superior interface, somewhat analagous to being the SCSI to USB2.0's EIDE."
now that''s firewire 400. firewire 800 = 800 Mpbs.
and you can't boot from usb afaik.
- ribit0
Ethernet 100mbit/s
Firewire 400 400mbit/s
USB2 480mbits/s?
Firewire 800mbit/s
even better:
external SATA 150 MB/s (thats megabytes, not megabits)
- elms0
should have searched first, sorry...
i was thinking of buying an external laptop hd to transfer bigger files, but the thing is that every pc doesnt have firewire port.
- ribit0
Firewire ports are cheap to add...PCI card.
- tomkat0
most newer PCs do come with FireWire - look for that 1394 - thats waht its called on teh peeeceee