Comments on: "Backing up 998,532 files."

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:24:06 +0000

I had some really bad experiences with 1TB My Book Home edition drives, I returned them and got the exact same drive you did. The only bummer was the lack of firewire. The only bad thing about these drives is that they put the fan on the bottom of the unit, so if you have them running for a long time, the desk under the drive is very hot. Or if you stack your external drives on top of your tower mac, you are just heating your mac.

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By: Benoit

Benoit — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:27:03 +0000

I’m stunned that storage is down to $.34 per gigabyte when it’s packaged conveniently and aesthetically.

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By: psu

psu — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:49:14 +0000

There are plenty of firewire RAID boxes with hot swappable drives. But they are expensive because the market is smaller.

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By: peterb

peterb — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:48:56 +0000

Stewart,

As far as that goes, bbum swears by the Drobo data robot.

But it’s not silent. So I’ll wait.

-peter

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By: Stewart Clamen

Stewart Clamen — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:26:27 +0000

Now that capacity is so immense, I’d like to see them concentrate on reliability. Replication and replaceable drives, all in one self-contained unit.

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By: Shelby

Shelby — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:36:09 +0000

I know this may bring me howls of derision from the turnkey product crowd, but I am very happy with my quiet, small footprint “ICY DOCK” enclosure.

It currently houses a 320 GB Hitachi drive. The crazies on the internet also point to Samsung drives as being good in fanless cases.

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By: peterb

peterb — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:48:51 +0000

They do have a 500 Gb version. It is rumoured to be just as quiet. I found the amazon reviews to be very helpful in this regard.

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By: psu

psu — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:36:08 +0000

I got 500GB drives from “Other World Computing”… which I like a lot. They are quiet but not silent, and aluminium.

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By: Jason Preston

Jason Preston — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:42:57 +0000

This is actually REALLY helpful. Having just installed Leopard, I was about to go on a big hunt for a visually appealing, really quiet external drive. You have just saved me many seconds, possibly minutes of googling.

Now I need to see if they have a 500gb version…

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