[Leica] OT: External hard disk for backup - which ?

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Dumb question? Not hardly!

You can either by the drives/enclosures at the same time or separately.

Separately the drive will probably cost you about $120-140 or so,
maybe less, for a 200 GB drive. The tray $20 then the enclosure has
the electronics that convert between either USB 2 or FireWire.

You're paying for the several sets of circuitry that convert, the
power supply, the case etc. For the Mac there are no drivers needed.
It Just Works. Don't know about the PC side.

Adam

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:22:38 -0400, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> 
wrote:
> Not to be too stupid, Adam - But are these enclosures, into which one
> then inserts a hard drive? So the price of the drive has to be figured
> in on top of the price of these units?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> B. D.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Adam Bridge
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 5:16 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: External hard disk for backup - which ?
> 
> Well I have good things to say about the Wiebetech family of products:
> 
> http://www.wiebetech.com/
> 
> I have a BayDock400 with two drawers so I can slide 200GB drives in and
> out. It's a great way to backup and to archive images. These come with
> both FireWire and USB2. You can simply buy a bare hard-drive and plug it
> into one of the trayes and slip it into the dock. Very slick.
> 
> Since I use these for archival purposes I don't care that they are a bit
> noisy. The 800s might be better than the 400s. I haven't bought one of
> the "smart" trays - I just use the dumb ones that cost a quarter as much
> and hope I'm smarter than the device is.
> 
> Here's info on just the device I've been taking about:
> 
> http://www.wiebetech.com/products/Baydock800.php
> 
> Just to keep B.D. happy: I have no relationship to the company in any
> way beyond I have purchased, at full web price, one of their units and
> five or six of their trays. They haven't paid me anything, ever, or
> given me any special discounts or loaned me a unit to try.
> 
> Adam Bridge
> 
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:46:01 -0400, Phong <phong@doan-ltd.com> wrote:
> > Hello LUGers,
> >
> > I need to extend my computer hard disk
> > backup capacity; the last external disk
> > I bought was the Maxtor One 120G,
> > and I think it does the job adequately.
> > What is the current popular units that
> > I should consider ?   What;s the capacity
> > sweet spot for best Gbyte/dollar ?  I prefer
> > USB 2.0 units as  that's the interface I use
> > today, but am open to any reasoned suggestions.
> >
> > Thanks all in advance,
> >
> > - Phong
> >
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