[Ham-Computers] External Hard Drives?

[Rolly (W7DGX) & Sandra Goodspeed]

Phil,

I am presently using a 129 G external hard drive to back up my 120 Gig 
computer drive.

The external drive communicates via a USB2 port.

I have never time it bu I would say it takes about ½ hour to do a copy. 
Right now that is about 70 gig.

I'm very happpy with the concept. It has been trouble free and reliable. It 
has also saved me much time and effort when I mistakenly deleted a 
directory. It took about 5 minutes of fiddling and another 10 minutes to 
restore the directory.

          Rolly  W7DGX


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Atchley" <Beaconeer at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Computers Ham" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:21 AM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] External Hard Drives?


> Hi All,
>
> I have a collection of OTR (Old Time Radio) shows in MP3 Format  that 
> takes up over 6GB of drive space, and before it's completed will probably 
> be about 15-20GB.  These are stored on my Main 80GB Hard drive AND on the 
> 80GB back-up drive.  However, IF I should ever get a worm or virus it 
> could wipe out everything on both drives and all those hours of downloads 
> would  be lost.  Since it's so large I don't really consider using CDR's 
> as a viable backup medium and want to buy an "outboard" hard drive that 
> would ONLY be used as a "archive and backup" medium.  It would ONLY 
> connected to the computer when I want to transfer data.
>
> Is there anything 'special" I need to look for in an external drive?  I 
> figure it'll use a USB interface.  Any feeling for how long can I expect 
> it to take to copy, say 10GB from the main drive to the backup drive via 
> USB? I suspect it'll be pretty slow and take a lot longer than from the 
> main drive to the internal backup drive.
>
> 73 de Phil,  KO6BB
> DX begins at the noise floor!