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By: avinator

avinator — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:16:21 +0000

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By: Indra

Indra — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:08:51 +0000

Dan:

Thanks, I’ll try that out.

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By: Dan Booring

Dan Booring — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:38:02 +0000

@ Indra:

…anyone know how do I backup both the OSX and the separate Data HDD? Iâ€™ve partitioned my HDD into two (PC habit) and of course, I want to backup both.

Well, since both are partitions of the same drive, all you would do is clone them separately, treating them as different volumes.

By: Indra

Indra — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:59:10 +0000

Great one! I was just asking about a backup solution in Mac. Anyway, anyone know how do I backup both the OSX and the separate Data HDD? I’ve partitioned my HDD into two (PC habit) and of course, I want to backup both.

By: Miles Evans

Miles Evans — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:18:59 +0000

I’m a bit put off why people gush over Lacie enough to be willing to pay double price for something that at the end of the day is still just a hard drive. Anyways…

@Joe: My recommendation is to buy a firewire 400/800/eSATA capable enclosure from Vantec or another maker and drop in any drive you like. The reason the Lacie drives you mention are failing has to do with the drives they are using. This way you can use whatever drive you like from Fujitsu, Hitachi, Seagate, Maxtor or Western Digital, after making sure users are not reporting faults with them. You will also likely save a bit of cash.

Keep in mind that this solution doesn’t offer any redundancy unless you use a RAID 1 capable enclosure and two drives. You might want to check out the Western Digital My Book drives that seem to be really popular and fairly priced.

By: Dan Booring

Dan Booring — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:06:58 +0000

I have used Western Digital drives pretty exclusively for the last several years and never had a problem. I have had external drives fail, but the culprit is usually the enclosure and not the hard disk itself. When I re-seated the drive or pulled it out and put it in another enclosure, it always worked fine.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:10:16 +0000

According to the “heart breaking story” The device that failed on him was a LaCie BigDisk. Here at work we have had several LaCie drives completely fail on us. Both hard drives and DVD burners. In the comments to the story that seems to be par for the course with LaCie.

Do you have any recommendations, either by experience, testing or other sources, that would recommend a hardy backup drive? It would be a shame to go through all the work of securing a copy of my machine, only to have the backup fail as well.