Re: External back up device

In <y%TGk.45091$rD2.21287@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, E Z Peaces wrote:

Once you've done that, by the biggest external drive you can afford. You won't find anything on the market with less than 300GB.

Newegg has approximately 450 external HDs. About half are 320 GB or less.

It is so much easier for me to make a point if people don't bother checking facts. You and the media are out to get me.

I don't know how much space TM uses, but is bigger always better?

I rejected bigger drives because the models I considered appeared to be less reliable. Cost is another consideration. Instead of paying for a disk with 500 GB I didn't need, I'd rather have money to spend on an additional backup device.

I would think, as a rough rule of thumb, unless you are doing video work (which really requires its own back-up strategy) that there is little gain in a TM volume that is more than twice as large as the source volume. So yes, beyond, say 2X the source volume, you are better off getting a second device.

What I wanted to suggest was that the OP pay to upgrade to Leopard and then see disk size as a second priority.

Cheers,

-j

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