Re: looking for external drive for backup

Marty Shore wrote:
I have a home office with 2 computers. I'd like to purchase
a large external hard drive to backup the data of both. I'm
looking for something in the neighborhood of 250 gig.


Just buy a 250GB hard drive and put it into an external
enclosure. There are ones for USB and ones for SATA
and ones for both USB and SATA. The ones made by
Kingwin have built-in fans and wall-wart power supplies
to keep the hard drive cool:
http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_Cat.asp?CateID=27

*TimDaniels*
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