Just picked up a new Seagate 300GB firewire/USB2 external backup drive. After my early experience with Maxtor (three failures) I swore off external drives that have their own power supply, but this new one caught my eye last week and I gave in.
Seems MUCH better build than the Maxtor units and comes with a copy of BounceBack Express. The nice feature is a single button on the front panel of the drive that AUTOMATICALLY can generate the backup. The drive is extremely quite (can't hear it at all) and it is hot bootable type meaning you don't have to turn the PC off and reboot to mount.
The BounceBack Express backup software is no frills, but has the imporant feature of single button (on drive) operation and it will just 'backup' what's changed if you're doing a bunch of files in a massive folder Like I'm doing now (187GB). Price less than a $1 a GB. I got mine at BestBuy.
Comes in two models, firewire only (slower) or firewire/USB. Speeds are 480 Mbits second for USB 2 and 400 for firewire. While it will run on older USB 1.0 DON'T try it, since it crawls at only 12 Mbits.
Seems MUCH better build than the Maxtor units and comes with a copy of BounceBack Express. The nice feature is a single button on the front panel of the drive that AUTOMATICALLY can generate the backup. The drive is extremely quite (can't hear it at all) and it is hot bootable type meaning you don't have to turn the PC off and reboot to mount.
The BounceBack Express backup software is no frills, but has the imporant feature of single button (on drive) operation and it will just 'backup' what's changed if you're doing a bunch of files in a massive folder Like I'm doing now (187GB). Price less than a $1 a GB. I got mine at BestBuy.
Comes in two models, firewire only (slower) or firewire/USB. Speeds are 480 Mbits second for USB 2 and 400 for firewire. While it will run on older USB 1.0 DON'T try it, since it crawls at only 12 Mbits.