Internal or External Hard drive for backing up

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jimbo123jimbo123
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
HI



Should I purchase an internal SATA drive or an external drive to back up

my current hard drive? I've noticed you get a lot more GB for your mopney if opted for the internal drive If I go for internal should I go for a retail boxed or OEM?



Can any one recommend a good back up software so I can do a straight copy

of my drive.



Thanks

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    progmacprogmac Posts: 1,850member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by jimbo123

    HI



    Should I purchase an internal SATA drive or an external drive to back up

    my current hard drive? I've noticed you get a lot more GB for your mopney if opted for the internal drive If I go for internal should I go for a retail boxed or OEM?



    Can any one recommend a good back up software so I can do a straight copy

    of my drive.



    Thanks



    i would buy an OEM drive from somewhere like pricewatch or dealmac. Retrospect is probably the best backup solution, but is rather pricey. I'm sure there are some other cheaper (free?) solutions out there, that some other members can recommend
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    jwink3101jwink3101 Posts: 739member
    Carbon Copy Cloner can do a really nice exact copy. If you are running 10.3 there are no problems. If you are using 10.4.0 or 10.4.1, you need to upgrade (free) to 10.4.2 for it to work.
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  • Reply 3 of 5
    sunilramansunilraman Posts: 8,133member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by jimbo123

    HI



    Should I purchase an internal SATA drive or an external drive to back up

    my current hard drive? I've noticed you get a lot more GB for your mopney if opted for the internal drive If I go for internal should I go for a retail boxed or OEM?



    Can any one recommend a good back up software so I can do a straight copy

    of my drive.



    Thanks





    get the best of both worlds. get a good brand fw400 or fw800 external 3.5" enclosure and get an OEM 7200rpm 3.5" drive. now, the only thing that if it is fw400 you may have to pay more for a bus-powered 3.5" enclosure.....
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  • Reply 4 of 5
    genesurgeongenesurgeon Posts: 29member
    Was actually about to ask a similar question about external HD's for back-up.



    Given that I'm looking for an out of the box solution, is there any consensus out there for the various Firewire HD manufacturers to go for/avoid? Or is it the same drive each time with a different label?



    La Cie Porsche design look nice, mainly due to firewire powering it, but are the Hard Drive Extremes etc a bit more durable?



    Planing to go with SuperDuper for clone plus Baskup for iDisk back-up.
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  • Reply 5 of 5
    sunilramansunilraman Posts: 8,133member
    my brother has lacie porsche. looks good. however lacie quality of recent times has come under question if i am not wrong...



    may i suggest to read this article on tuaw.com if you have time re: super-tight backup methodology

    http://www.tuaw.com/2005/08/29/an-os...personalities/
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