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External HD Recommendation

Started byOtto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com>
First post2013-12-28 09:21 -0800
Last post2013-12-29 14:45 -0800
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  External HD Recommendation Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2013-12-28 09:21 -0800
    Re: External HD Recommendation William Hanna <whanna@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-28 09:44 -0800
      Re: External HD Recommendation Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-12-29 09:37 -0800
        Re: External HD Recommendation Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2013-12-29 10:08 -0800
          Re: External HD Recommendation android <here@there.was> - 2013-12-29 19:15 +0100
    Re: External HD Recommendation billy@MIX.COM - 2013-12-28 20:21 +0000
      Re: External HD Recommendation Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-28 14:59 -0800
        Re: External HD Recommendation Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2013-12-28 15:28 -0800
          Re: External HD Recommendation nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-28 20:17 -0500
          Re: External HD Recommendation Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-28 17:34 -0800
            Re: External HD Recommendation nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-28 21:06 -0500
        Re: External HD Recommendation Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-12-29 04:18 +0000
        Re: External HD Recommendation Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-30 04:38 +0000
          Re: External HD Recommendation Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2013-12-29 21:36 -0800
            Re: External HD Recommendation Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-30 01:58 -0800
            Re: External HD Recommendation J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2013-12-30 10:20 -0500
              Re: External HD Recommendation Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-12-31 07:32 -0800
                Re: External HD Recommendation J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2013-12-31 11:46 -0500
            Re: External HD Recommendation Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-12-30 09:37 -0800
              Re: External HD Recommendation Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-30 18:07 +0000
                Re: External HD Recommendation nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-30 13:13 -0500
                Re: External HD Recommendation Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-12-30 10:27 -0800
                  Re: External HD Recommendation J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2013-12-30 14:15 -0500
                    Re: External HD Recommendation Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-30 22:43 +0000
                      Re: External HD Recommendation nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-30 18:09 -0500
                      Re: External HD Recommendation J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2013-12-30 22:34 -0500
              Re: External HD Recommendation TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2013-12-30 13:54 -0600
                Re: External HD Recommendation Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2013-12-30 13:14 -0800
                Re: External HD Recommendation Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-12-30 14:49 -0800
            Re: External HD Recommendation Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-30 18:01 +0000
      Re: External HD Recommendation Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-12-29 03:59 +0000
        Re: External HD Recommendation George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2013-12-29 07:47 -0600
    Re: External HD Recommendation J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2013-12-28 17:52 -0500
    Re: External HD Recommendation Earl Grey <earl@t.net> - 2013-12-29 10:06 -0500
      Re: External HD Recommendation yellow label <here@there.was> - 2013-12-29 17:01 +0100
    Re: External HD Recommendation John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2013-12-29 16:27 -0500
      Re: External HD Recommendation J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2013-12-29 21:29 -0500
        Re: External HD Recommendation claudel@sonic.net (Claude V. Lucas) - 2013-12-30 12:36 +0000
          Re: External HD Recommendation TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2013-12-30 08:55 -0600
        Re: External HD Recommendation John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2013-12-30 10:29 -0500
          Re: External HD Recommendation Martin Frost me at invalid stanford daht edu <nospam@stanford.edu.invalid> - 2013-12-30 19:56 -0800
            Re: External HD Recommendation Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2013-12-31 19:18 +1100
              Re: External HD Recommendation Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-31 15:30 +0000
                Re: External HD Recommendation Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-12-31 07:34 -0800
                  Re: External HD Recommendation Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2014-01-01 17:51 +1100
                    Re: External HD Recommendation TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2014-01-01 10:14 -0600
                    Re: External HD Recommendation Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-01 17:39 +0000
                      Re: External HD Recommendation Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2014-01-02 11:54 +1100
                        Re: External HD Recommendation Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-02 01:09 +0000
                          Re: External HD Recommendation Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-01 20:38 -0700
                            Re: External HD Recommendation Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-02 16:47 +0000
                          Re: External HD Recommendation Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2014-01-09 08:13 +1100
                            Re: External HD Recommendation Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-08 21:19 +0000
                        Re: External HD Recommendation Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-02 02:35 +0000
                Re: External HD Recommendation Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2014-01-01 17:47 +1100
                  Re: External HD Recommendation nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-01 02:24 -0500
                    Re: External HD Recommendation Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2014-01-02 02:38 +1100
                      Re: External HD Recommendation nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-01 11:55 -0500
                      Re: External HD Recommendation J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-01-01 13:34 -0500
                      Re: External HD Recommendation Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2014-01-01 19:01 -0800
                  Re: External HD Recommendation Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-01 09:45 +0000
                    Re: External HD Recommendation Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2014-01-02 02:28 +1100
                      Re: External HD Recommendation Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-01 15:36 +0000
                      Re: External HD Recommendation nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-01 11:55 -0500
    Re: External HD Recommendation TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2013-12-29 16:00 -0600
      Re: External HD Recommendation Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-12-29 22:01 +0000
        Re: External HD Recommendation TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2013-12-29 16:19 -0600
          Re: External HD Recommendation Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2013-12-29 14:45 -0800

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#54185

FromLewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Date2014-01-01 09:45 +0000
Message-ID<slrnlc7otm.n71.g.kreme@amelia.local>
In reply to#54176
In message <vce7c9tm8fa2n7g9rngpbms9e5ldag67n8@4ax.com> 
  Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:30:46 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>>In message <1dv4c95dm2154g4o96634f865ut6sktgmv@4ax.com> 
>>  Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> wrote:
>>> On 30 Dec 2013 19:56:41 -0800, Martin Frost me at invalid stanford
>>> daht edu <nospam@stanford.edu.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>>John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> J Burns wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I've come to like 2.5" disks.  Are there advantages to 3.5" disks?
>>>>> 
>>>>> That's a very good question.
>>>>> 
>>>>> My take (and it could certainly be wrong): I'm thinking that 2.5"
>>>>> drives have come a long way, in that they've reached a point where
>>>>> they may actually be "more rugged" than 3.5" drives. My rationale is
>>>>> that 2.5" drives are designed to go into laptops, and designed to
>>>>> endure the jolts and bumps to which laptops are subject.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've had 3.5" drives fail. But I haven't had a failed 2.5" drive yet.
>>>>
>>>>We've had a few 2.5" drives fail in the last few months.  We use them
>>>>in mirror pairs to hold the OS on some of our fileservers, so we
>>>>haven't lost any data since the failed ones were mirrored.  They (or
>>>>some of them anyway) may indeed be better at withstanding bumps such
>>>>as those a laptop suffers, though I feel a whole lot safer with an SSD
>>>>in my laptop.
>>
>>> SSDs wear out and are slower especially when it comes to writing.
>>
>>That takes decades with modern SSDs. They are MUCH more reliable than
>>spinny discs, and much faster.

> SSDs are not used in servers due to the wear problem

Certainly not true. SSDs are used all the time in servers because they
are faster and more reliable than spinny disks. Unless you need a lot of
space it would be foolish not to use SSDs.

A company I work with has a web server with 6 120GB SSDs in a RAID-6.
That machine screams.

Your information on wear problems is woefully out of date.

> thought I did
> see an article where someone was claiming to b able to recover SSDs
> using very high temperatures.

Next generation SSDs, if the heat mechanisms can be made to work
reliably, should have read/write cycles in the billions (at least)
making them the hands-down most reliable storage medium we’ve invented
so far. Current SSDs are in the hundreds of thousands of cycles.

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"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big
enough majority in any town?" - Huckleberry Finn

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#54190

FromBarry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au>
Date2014-01-02 02:28 +1100
Message-ID<jtc8c9l0mk15f8329chrngtg25ec9otsm6@4ax.com>
In reply to#54185
On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 09:45:26 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
<g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>In message <vce7c9tm8fa2n7g9rngpbms9e5ldag67n8@4ax.com> 
>  Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:30:46 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
>> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
>>>In message <1dv4c95dm2154g4o96634f865ut6sktgmv@4ax.com> 
>>>  Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> wrote:
>>>> On 30 Dec 2013 19:56:41 -0800, Martin Frost me at invalid stanford
>>>> daht edu <nospam@stanford.edu.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> J Burns wrote:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I've come to like 2.5" disks.  Are there advantages to 3.5" disks?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That's a very good question.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> My take (and it could certainly be wrong): I'm thinking that 2.5"
>>>>>> drives have come a long way, in that they've reached a point where
>>>>>> they may actually be "more rugged" than 3.5" drives. My rationale is
>>>>>> that 2.5" drives are designed to go into laptops, and designed to
>>>>>> endure the jolts and bumps to which laptops are subject.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I've had 3.5" drives fail. But I haven't had a failed 2.5" drive yet.
>>>>>
>>>>>We've had a few 2.5" drives fail in the last few months.  We use them
>>>>>in mirror pairs to hold the OS on some of our fileservers, so we
>>>>>haven't lost any data since the failed ones were mirrored.  They (or
>>>>>some of them anyway) may indeed be better at withstanding bumps such
>>>>>as those a laptop suffers, though I feel a whole lot safer with an SSD
>>>>>in my laptop.
>>>
>>>> SSDs wear out and are slower especially when it comes to writing.
>>>
>>>That takes decades with modern SSDs. They are MUCH more reliable than
>>>spinny discs, and much faster.
>
>> SSDs are not used in servers due to the wear problem
>
>Certainly not true. SSDs are used all the time in servers because they
>are faster and more reliable than spinny disks. Unless you need a lot of
>space it would be foolish not to use SSDs.
>
>A company I work with has a web server with 6 120GB SSDs in a RAID-6.
>That machine screams.
>
>Your information on wear problems is woefully out of date.
>
>> thought I did
>> see an article where someone was claiming to b able to recover SSDs
>> using very high temperatures.
>
>Next generation SSDs, if the heat mechanisms can be made to work
>reliably, should have read/write cycles in the billions (at least)
>making them the hands-down most reliable storage medium we’ve invented
>so far. Current SSDs are in the hundreds of thousands of cycles.

Good enough for domestic use but according to a recent article I saw
the wear problem does not make them suitable for use in servers.

================>
If you don't like what I say you can go know yourself!

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#54191

FromLewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Date2014-01-01 15:36 +0000
Message-ID<slrnlc8dg3.oqs.g.kreme@amelia.local>
In reply to#54190
In message <jtc8c9l0mk15f8329chrngtg25ec9otsm6@4ax.com> 
  Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 09:45:26 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>>In message <vce7c9tm8fa2n7g9rngpbms9e5ldag67n8@4ax.com> 
>>  Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:30:46 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
>>> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>
>>>>In message <1dv4c95dm2154g4o96634f865ut6sktgmv@4ax.com> 
>>>>  Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> wrote:
>>>>> On 30 Dec 2013 19:56:41 -0800, Martin Frost me at invalid stanford
>>>>> daht edu <nospam@stanford.edu.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> J Burns wrote:
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > I've come to like 2.5" disks.  Are there advantages to 3.5" disks?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> That's a very good question.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> My take (and it could certainly be wrong): I'm thinking that 2.5"
>>>>>>> drives have come a long way, in that they've reached a point where
>>>>>>> they may actually be "more rugged" than 3.5" drives. My rationale is
>>>>>>> that 2.5" drives are designed to go into laptops, and designed to
>>>>>>> endure the jolts and bumps to which laptops are subject.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I've had 3.5" drives fail. But I haven't had a failed 2.5" drive yet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>We've had a few 2.5" drives fail in the last few months.  We use them
>>>>>>in mirror pairs to hold the OS on some of our fileservers, so we
>>>>>>haven't lost any data since the failed ones were mirrored.  They (or
>>>>>>some of them anyway) may indeed be better at withstanding bumps such
>>>>>>as those a laptop suffers, though I feel a whole lot safer with an SSD
>>>>>>in my laptop.
>>>>
>>>>> SSDs wear out and are slower especially when it comes to writing.
>>>>
>>>>That takes decades with modern SSDs. They are MUCH more reliable than
>>>>spinny discs, and much faster.
>>
>>> SSDs are not used in servers due to the wear problem
>>
>>Certainly not true. SSDs are used all the time in servers because they
>>are faster and more reliable than spinny disks. Unless you need a lot of
>>space it would be foolish not to use SSDs.
>>
>>A company I work with has a web server with 6 120GB SSDs in a RAID-6.
>>That machine screams.
>>
>>Your information on wear problems is woefully out of date.
>>
>>> thought I did
>>> see an article where someone was claiming to b able to recover SSDs
>>> using very high temperatures.
>>
>>Next generation SSDs, if the heat mechanisms can be made to work
>>reliably, should have read/write cycles in the billions (at least)
>>making them the hands-down most reliable storage medium we’ve invented
>>so far. Current SSDs are in the hundreds of thousands of cycles.

> Good enough for domestic use but according to a recent article I saw
> the wear problem does not make them suitable for use in servers.

What article you saw where and how recent?

And whatever article it was, was wrong.

-- 
-=>
<http://xkcd.com/241/> <http://xkcd.com/304/> <http://xkcd.com/635/>
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#54196

Fromnospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Date2014-01-01 11:55 -0500
Message-ID<010120141155043875%nospam@nospam.invalid>
In reply to#54190
In article <jtc8c9l0mk15f8329chrngtg25ec9otsm6@4ax.com>, Barry OGrady
<atheist@hotmail.com.au> wrote:

> Good enough for domestic use but according to a recent article I saw
> the wear problem does not make them suitable for use in servers.

the article is wrong.

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#54020

FromTaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com>
Date2013-12-29 16:00 -0600
Message-ID<bibkc0FsnboU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#53946
On 2013-12-28 17:21:46 +0000, Otto Pylot said:

> Ok, it's a new subject related to my previous question about backing up
> to a bootable external. With the exception of the WD My Passport Slim,
> what would you all recommend for an external HD? Needs are simple, just
> backing up my HD before installation of Mavericks, probably backed up
> with CCC, and then the occasional  back up. The drive needs to be
> bootable and the capacity could be as low as 500GB. I'd also like to
> keep the cost at $100 or lower. The primary laptop is a mid-2011
> MacBook Air. Thanks.

I've had extremely good lluck with SuperDuper! backing up to a LaCie 
Porsche Design hard drive. As an amusing aside, on those occasions 
where I've saught advice from the Genius Bar at the Apple store I've 
taken the LaCie drive instead of my iMac, booting onto an iMac already 
in the store. If any changes are made it is easy to boot from the LaCie 
drive when I'm home, using SuperDuper! to update the internal drive on 
my iMac.

-- 
James Leo Ryan - Austin, Texas

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#54021

FromJolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Date2013-12-29 22:01 +0000
Message-ID<bibkdlFsnbmU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#54020
On 2013-12-29, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> wrote:
> On 2013-12-28 17:21:46 +0000, Otto Pylot said:
>
>> Ok, it's a new subject related to my previous question about backing up
>> to a bootable external. With the exception of the WD My Passport Slim,
>> what would you all recommend for an external HD? Needs are simple, just
>> backing up my HD before installation of Mavericks, probably backed up
>> with CCC, and then the occasional  back up. The drive needs to be
>> bootable and the capacity could be as low as 500GB. I'd also like to
>> keep the cost at $100 or lower. The primary laptop is a mid-2011
>> MacBook Air. Thanks.
>
> I've had extremely good lluck with SuperDuper! backing up to a LaCie 
> Porsche Design hard drive. As an amusing aside, on those occasions 
> where I've saught advice from the Genius Bar at the Apple store I've 
> taken the LaCie drive instead of my iMac, booting onto an iMac already 
> in the store. If any changes are made it is easy to boot from the LaCie 
> drive when I'm home, using SuperDuper! to update the internal drive on 
> my iMac.

I'm surprised they allow that! Cool.

-- 
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I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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#54022

FromTaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com>
Date2013-12-29 16:19 -0600
Message-ID<biblerFsugjU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#54021
On 2013-12-29 22:01:25 +0000, Jolly Roger said:

> On 2013-12-29, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> wrote:
>> On 2013-12-28 17:21:46 +0000, Otto Pylot said:
>> 
>>> Ok, it's a new subject related to my previous question about backing up
>>> to a bootable external. With the exception of the WD My Passport Slim,
>>> what would you all recommend for an external HD? Needs are simple, just
>>> backing up my HD before installation of Mavericks, probably backed up
>>> with CCC, and then the occasional  back up. The drive needs to be
>>> bootable and the capacity could be as low as 500GB. I'd also like to
>>> keep the cost at $100 or lower. The primary laptop is a mid-2011
>>> MacBook Air. Thanks.
>> 
>> I've had extremely good lluck with SuperDuper! backing up to a LaCie
>> Porsche Design hard drive. As an amusing aside, on those occasions
>> where I've saught advice from the Genius Bar at the Apple store I've
>> taken the LaCie drive instead of my iMac, booting onto an iMac already
>> in the store. If any changes are made it is easy to boot from the LaCie
>> drive when I'm home, using SuperDuper! to update the internal drive on
>> my iMac.
> 
> I'm surprised they allow that! Cool.

Actually I've received remarks from a Genius such as "That's certainly 
the way to let us address a problem!"

-- 
James Leo Ryan - Austin, Texas

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#54023

FromOtto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com>
Date2013-12-29 14:45 -0800
Message-ID<291220131445470030%otto@bogus.address.com>
In reply to#54022
In article <biblerFsugjU1@mid.individual.net>, TaliesinSoft
<taliesinsoft@me.com> wrote:

> On 2013-12-29 22:01:25 +0000, Jolly Roger said:
> 
> > On 2013-12-29, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> wrote:
> >> On 2013-12-28 17:21:46 +0000, Otto Pylot said:
> >> 
> >>> Ok, it's a new subject related to my previous question about backing up
> >>> to a bootable external. With the exception of the WD My Passport Slim,
> >>> what would you all recommend for an external HD? Needs are simple, just
> >>> backing up my HD before installation of Mavericks, probably backed up
> >>> with CCC, and then the occasional  back up. The drive needs to be
> >>> bootable and the capacity could be as low as 500GB. I'd also like to
> >>> keep the cost at $100 or lower. The primary laptop is a mid-2011
> >>> MacBook Air. Thanks.
> >> 
> >> I've had extremely good lluck with SuperDuper! backing up to a LaCie
> >> Porsche Design hard drive. As an amusing aside, on those occasions
> >> where I've saught advice from the Genius Bar at the Apple store I've
> >> taken the LaCie drive instead of my iMac, booting onto an iMac already
> >> in the store. If any changes are made it is easy to boot from the LaCie
> >> drive when I'm home, using SuperDuper! to update the internal drive on
> >> my iMac.
> > 
> > I'm surprised they allow that! Cool.
> 
> Actually I've received remarks from a Genius such as "That's certainly 
> the way to let us address a problem!"

Thanks again everyone for the input. My bro-in-law just dropped off a
500GB WD (model WD500H1U-00) USB2.0 Bookend drive. He gave it to me so
that should get me where I want to go at zero cost, for now. It uses a
power adapter but that's not a big deal. I'll just reformat it with
Disk Utility now and then use CCC to clone the Air tomorrow.

-- 
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replacing invalid with sonic.

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