Long Legged Blogging - Richard Kenyon's Ramblings

I used to be an early adopter of technology until financial (read two children) constraints made it hard to keep up with the speed things were moving. Anyway I just moved into the digital music world, and packed all 200 CDs away in a box last night, after ripping them all and dumping them onto my new iPod (I just love the interface) using iTunes, something like 7 Gb of data! Yes a little spend therapy made a big difference to my general state of mind, and I now need to find a back up strategy for my lap top, whose 30Gb drive is full. I have all my photos burned to CD, but feel the need to keep a double back up, and am wondering how to tackle this next problem. Any suggestions?

Comments:

I burn my data to DVD(s), and send a copy to a relative on the other side of the contenent. That way, if the house burns down, I can summon by backup copy.

Also USB_2.0/Firewire drives are great. http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4159203?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

Ximeta makes a consumer-level combo USB/Ethernet (NAS) drive. http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3767436. The problem with it, is that you have to install proprietary software on all of the clients. Now if it used NFS or SMB (ala Samba), then I might be sold.

Posted by Michael Ayotte on November 04, 2004 at 10:48 AM PST #

The answer, clearly, is to get a 1 Terabyte external hard drive!
But on a side note, you should check out Musicmobs (here is my library) and Mobster now that you're a member of the "digital music revolution."

Posted by Bryan Donovan on December 06, 2004 at 08:18 AM PST #