[HM] Re: iDisk

[Barry Lyden]

I have to agree. I used to use iDisk for backing up my documents folder and
a few other things, and it's pretty slow. 10-30GB files would take all day.
For saving video projects, I would recommend an external Firewire drive.

On 10/14/03 8:35 PM, "Bob K" <itheshopper at earthlink.net> wrote:

> iDisk gives you 100MB for $100 per year.  Judging how 10-30 GB would
> behave a big jump
> also is cost.  My experience is also that the communication is too slow
> (I have DSL, the
> bottleneck is the server) for such big file transfers.  However,
> panther will change that.
> I suggest you collect info, but don't decide, until more is know how
> iDisk behaves interfacing
> a Panther user.  My guess is that you will not find it practical.
> 
> On Tuesday, Oct 14, 2003, at 20:37 US/Eastern, Ken Poppers wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone on this list use iDisk?  If you do could you let me know
>> how well it works?  I use iMovie and iDVD and need to store incomplete
>> projects that use 10-30G.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
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