Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I bought one of those exact same Western 500 GB USB
hard drives for exactly the same reason.
However, it does something on my G5 iMac I don't like;
when the energy-saver puts the system to sleep, it
reads the hard drive as having been improperly
removed, the system wakes back up, won't go to sleep,
and I keep getting the error message that a USB device
has been improperly removed.
My work around is to only plug it in and run it when I
am actually copying files to it. How can I fix this?
--- "Robert D. Baron" <rbaron@concentric.net> wrote:
> My local Best Buy store is selling Western Digital
> 500 GB MyBook
> External USB 2.0/eSata Hard Drives (Model
> WDG1SU5000N) for $140. I
> think that is cheap enough to buy a couple and use
> them as back ups for
> my image files.
>
> I'm not talking about using Retrospect back up
> software or doing
> anything fancy, I'm talking about just copying my
> image files from my
> computer's hard drive over to an external hard drive
> as a form of back up.
>
> Is there a reason this is not a good idea?
>
> Should I instead (or in addition?) be burning the
> image files to Gold
> DVDs and storing them there?
>
> Even with sales tax these Western Digital drives
> work out to about 30?
> per GB which seems pretty cheap to me.
>
> I know that USB 2.0 is not the fastest transfer
> mechanism on the block
> but for what I have in mind I *think* it would be
> acceptable.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
> --Bob
>
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