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RobertVA Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 12. "RE: Fatal harddrive crash" 10-12-02, 22:35z  One of my local acquaintances is heavy into high quality digital photography and MP3 music files. Both hobbies use large quantities of hard drive space. He has come to the conclusion the most practical solution to backups is a second computer system and an external IDE hard drive to transport files back and forth. The external drive he uses is installed in an “enclosure” that allows him to connect the drive through a USB port. The “enclosure” is designed to permit better transfer speeds when it is connected to a USB standard version 2.0 port. I place “enclosure” in quotation marks because he can’t replace the lid on the “enclosure” with the cooling fan he has attached to the top of the drive mechanism. The unit is about the size of a CD drive This guy must be well funded though. He has a device called a "digital wallet" which is essentialy a 2 GB hard drive in a battery powered enclosure which can retrieve his photos from his camera's memory cards without the assistance of a computer. The entire enclosure, including its internal battery holder, is about the size of a standard IDE hard drive. The unit must have one of those little hard drives like the ones in a notebook computer in it. Robert Near KORF Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-06-02              RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Ben_Chiu       10-06-02       1            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       7                 RE: Fatal harddrive crash    RobertVA       10-12-02       12                      RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Mike_Greenwood       10-13-02       13         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    vgbaron       10-06-02       2            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       9         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    AlanParkinson       10-06-02       3            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    TD       10-07-02       5                 RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       8            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       6         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    jerryrosie       10-07-02       4            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       10         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       11

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