Tag Archives: external_hdd

Attack of the Hard Drives

July 13, 2008 – 4:20 pm

I just connected another hard drive to my iMac which meant I ended up with the mess shown below. That’s 4 drives, with 1.8TB of space (that’s in addition to the 500GB in the iMac itself). Seems like overkill to me. In my defense I submit that I’m paranoid about backups and as far as [...]

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Seagate FreeAgent Go 80GB USB External Drive

December 28, 2007 – 4:39 am

I was in Staples before Christmas and they had the Seagate FreeAgent Go external drives on sale. I’ve never bought a 2.5″ external drive before because of concerns over reliability. But at about fifty cents a gig and the small size I decided to get the 80GB version. The small size would make it easier [...]

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Western Digital My Book Moved to iMac

July 12, 2007 – 7:26 pm

I’ve had my 500GB Western Digital My Book drive for over a month and just got around to moving it to my Mac after testing in on my Windows PC. Click on the previous link to go to my post where I write about the drive and installing it under Windows.My intent all along [...]

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Maxtor OneTouch III Update

May 26, 2007 – 12:38 pm

I first wrote about the Maxtor OneTouch III back in December and now that I’ve had it awhile it’s a good time for an update. I’ve been running it connected to my iMac since my initial review. I also gave one to my father as to use as a backup drive with a Windows PC.
The [...]

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Western Digital My Book 500GB Drive w/ EMC Retrospect Software

May 21, 2007 – 5:39 pm

I purchased the Western Digital My Book Pro Edition 500 GB External Hard Drive with Triple Interface (slight variations in the name indicate different models so be sure to check the specs when buying) to become a backup drive for my iMac, but I want to give it a spin under Windows first. This article [...]

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Bits and Pieces

April 15, 2007 – 5:18 pm

Another week has gone by. It being tax time and all (yea I waited) I didn’t have time to put together any additional articles but I do have a bunch of little things I’ve either started or have noticed around the web. Rather than a lot of small posts, or ignoring them completely, I decided [...]

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