Mac Backup
March 22nd, 2005
First…I’ve had a 120G Western Digital hard drive sitting in my room for more than a year now. This hard drive was only $60…actually, it would have been $60 after an $80 mail-in rebate, but unfortunately I never mailed it in, so now I own a $120 hard drive that’s still sitting in its box.
Next…as of the past few months I’ve been using my Mac iBook almost exclusively (so much so that I took down my FreeBSD machine and put it in storage) because it’s pretty much the perfect operating system.
But now I worry about losing data. I’m working on a few important projects on this laptop, and if I were to lose the laptop (or have it stolen), that would be the end of my project since that data isn’t backed up anywhere else.
So I gots me an external hard drive enclosure, the AMS Venus DS3, which I bought from Newegg.com. It installed in no time and connects via Firewire. This is my first Firewire device, and it’s pretty damn fast. Now I just copy my important files to the hard drive every few days, although it’d be nice if a program existed that would automatically back up the files and directories that I wanted. I should look around.
That’s it. I highly recommend one of these (or an external hard drive) to anyone with a laptop.