Comments on: Backups http://nedward.org/2005/01/31/backups nedward.org is the personal weblog of John Niedermeyer, an Editorial Designer at NYTimes.com, living in Brooklyn. Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:12:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Stevie http://nedward.org/2005/01/31/backups/comment-page-1#comment-1162 Stevie Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:48:21 +0000 http://nedward.org/wp/?p=574#comment-1162 I think it would be far easier to remove the old Dell PC from the backup routine entirely, buy a firewire case for the 80GB hard drive you purchased, and plug the firewire 80GB drive into your PowerBook at night and the backups will take care of itself. The best advantages to this idea are the speed of firewire, the portability of a hard drive in a firewire case, rather than a hard drive in a Dell box. Then there is also the reduced cost to your electricity bill :-) I cringed when you said that you joined the Dell to the network with a 802.11g wireless card. For a computer whose sole purpose is backups, you would want a faster connection than a measily theorectical max of 54Mbps. I mean, sure, it's not bad as far as wireless goes, but you are only going to get 2-3MB/sec best case scenario. With a simple Firewire enclosure you'll get a max of 40MB/sec. There are lots of different firewire cases you could buy, but I would recommend buying through "http://macsales.com":http://macsales.com aka Other World Computing. I think it would be far easier to remove the old Dell PC from the backup routine entirely, buy a firewire case for the 80GB hard drive you purchased, and plug the firewire 80GB drive into your PowerBook at night and the backups will take care of itself.

The best advantages to this idea are the speed of firewire, the portability of a hard drive in a firewire case, rather than a hard drive in a Dell box. Then there is also the reduced cost to your electricity bill :-)

I cringed when you said that you joined the Dell to the network with a 802.11g wireless card. For a computer whose sole purpose is backups, you would want a faster connection than a measily theorectical max of 54Mbps. I mean, sure, it’s not bad as far as wireless goes, but you are only going to get 2-3MB/sec best case scenario. With a simple Firewire enclosure you’ll get a max of 40MB/sec.

There are lots of different firewire cases you could buy, but I would recommend buying through “http://macsales.com”:http://macsales.com aka Other World Computing.

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