Hey Carlos, you know when John Lennon was recording "The Benefit of Mr Kite" he told George Martin he wanted to be able to smell the sawdust.
Recommendations for Backup Drive for a Mac Laptop?
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Hey Carlos, you know when John Lennon was recording "The Benefit of Mr Kite" he told George Martin he wanted to be able to smell the sawdust.
carlos21
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okay your misses been watching the jungle,
Yea she had it on last night, I couldn't wait for her to turn it off. I think she wants to watch it every night so I might have to bring my PS3 and a second TV and play that.
carlos21
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oh dear don't shout at Rachel mate,
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You can get hard drives that are shock and water resistant. Those are probably the best.
I run Windows, but hard drives are easily formatted to deal with either. I use one of these (Newegg.com) weekly and then throw it in the glovebox of my car.
I know people also love those LaCie orange rugged drives. Those may be better for your Mac if you don't have USB 3.0, since you can get them in Firewire and Thunderbolt as well.
I run Windows, but hard drives are easily formatted to deal with either. I use one of these (Newegg.com) weekly and then throw it in the glovebox of my car.
I know people also love those LaCie orange rugged drives. Those may be better for your Mac if you don't have USB 3.0, since you can get them in Firewire and Thunderbolt as well.
good advice
carlos21
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thanks brother,
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Could do with one myself. Cheers.
:blink: Lost for words, I think you might be stuck in the 90's Mick
On topic, if you're looking to back up what's on the primary drive (Mac) then anything will do, it's just a back up after all. I'd recommend doing some sort of time machine back up, so you don't have to remember to do it manually. If you rely on manual intervention, more often than not it just doesn't get done.
If you're using it to shift data from your primary drive and store it, then get something that's raided.
What are you backing up though? If it's photos, you also have the option of using Adobe Revel. You can upload your entire photo library FOC, and then opt to pay £3.99 per month to upload more photos. There is an allowance of 50 photos a month FOC, so you could find that you don't need to keep the monthly subscription going every month.
There are lots of cloud services too.
For a back up of data that will be sitting on a primary drive though, I'm not sure I would be spending a great deal of cash personally. It all depends on how valuable the data is though, in which case I'd always have it triplicated to be on the safe side.
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