[P1] External Firewire HD

[Brian Olesky]

A friend with TechTV recommended TransInternational. She says she and Leo
LaPorte bought from them and they're both satisfied with their HD's. The web
address she pointed me to was:

http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Category=405&CFID=758110&CFTOKEN
=91612470&RequestTimeOut=500

I ordered the 120 mb model with the larger cache.

Brian



On 8/18/03 10:19 AM, "don hinkle" <donhinkle at att.net> wrote:

> Brian, a minor oversight. You *still* don't mention what kind of
> external Firewire HD you bought (and from whom, and for how much) that
> will boot!
> -don
> 
> Brian Olesky wrote:
> 
>>>>> I am planning to buy an external Firewire HD (or a HD case) for my
>>>>> ibook. I would like to be able to boot from that drive.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm curious. Why do you want to do this?
>>> 
>>> One reason would be to restore that backup drive to the internal via
>>> backup if the internal fails.
>> 
>> 
>> Ahh, got it. I actually have an external hard drive on order for delivery
>> today, as a result of last week's thread on this subject. Would I be smart
>> to get a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner, and just clone the whole internal drive
>> contents straight to the hard drive on a regular basis, or is this overkill,
>> and would I be better off getting one of those programs that just updates
>> the info on a regular basis? And if I start out the first time with a
>> complete copy of everything, is that all I need to boot off the external
>> drive if the internal drive drops dead?
>> 
>> Finally, apologies to Mark for highjacking his original post questioning
>> what kind of external drive he'll need to be able to boot from it.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>> 
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