[plug] USB backup - hardware suggestions

[Jim Leven]

Dear Leon and others

Could you please offer some suggestions of the manufacturer/models that 
you have found to be reliable.

Regards
JIm Leven


 >> Leon (and others) -- in your experience just how stable/reliable are 
 >> the
 >> 200GB USB2 drives?   I have always been concerned about the physical
 >> handling side... drop a tape acidentally and no worries but drop a
 >> whole
 >> drive and Boom (tm).
 >>
 >>
 >> You can use much more expensive lappie drives (a 40GB lappie drive
 >> costs about
 >> the same as a 200GB not-lappie drive) but even those are far from
 >> invulnerable. I recommned simply being careful.
 >>
 >> OTOH a hard drive will typically survive being left on a dashboard 
in >> the sun and a tape won't.
 >>
 >> Cheers; Leon


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