Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/01

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Subject: [Leica] I'm back and resubscribed
From: jonathan at openhealth.org (Jonathan Borden)
Date: Wed Sep 1 20:53:13 2004
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  Feli di Giorgio wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 20:24, Brian Reid wrote:
>
>> It's safe to buy 250's now. It wasn't a few months ago. I wouldn't
>> buy anything bigger.
>
> Do you recommend any brand in particular and why?
> Seagate? IBM? Toshiba? Maxtor? Quantum?

I buy the IDE 200 gb drives that can be had for just under $100 (e.g. 
www.mwave.com) and stick 'em in a $30 aluminum USB box (I've used the 
"Metal Gear Box")-- yes firewire is faster but for my purposes USB 2 is 
fine for backup.

Now if you are after performance, a SATA drive with a large e.g. 8 mb 
buffer is best, else SCSI/RAID -- but that starts to get expensive in 
$/gb.

Jonathan
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