Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm a Mac person as you know, but I don't think platform has much to do with the solution. I have moved to externally mounted SATA drives - 500 GB. There are good cards to run them, the enclosures are cheap since they really just provide power to the drive, and you can buy bare drives over the internet from a variety of reputable dealers. Being SATA you just plug in the cable to the drive from the SATA card that mounts in your backplane and you're in business. For me I had to wait for the PCI-express card for my quad G5 Mac but it was worth the wait. The enclosure lets me mount two drives and set them up as two drives or as a variety of RAID formats. I like this solution a lot. It's better than an external FireWire or USB drive since it's running at full speed and driven directly by the internal card. Adam Bridge On 7/20/06, Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote: > The subject line tells almost all. I am in a PC environment and would like > the consensus view on 200GB and above external drives. The primary use > would be to store image data as a primary backup while working on a series. > Secondary backup will continue to be DVD's. Plans would be to download and > then shut down so it doesn't spin most of the time. > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >