[ale] Need a big external drive quick. Suggestions?

[Jim Popovitch]

Frankly, I would dump the USB idea and use a network (NAS/SAN) 
device/drive.  You can pick up a cheap NAS (enclosure + bios etc) for 
less than $100 at Microcenter or Frys.  Throw your hard drive in that 
and get your data backed up much faster.

Even better, pop the top and drop the second drive in it if you can 
spare some downtime.

-Jim P.

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> All,
> 
> I need to copy off about 700 GB of data from a server Saturday night
> (overnight, hope its done by Sunday morning).
> 
> I thought about buying one of the new Seagate 750 GB drives and
> putting it in a USB 2 enclusere, but I'm afraid that with filesystem
> overhead etc. it won't be big enough.
> 
> My next thought was a Lacie 1 TB external unit but some of the reviews
> at Amazon are not so good.
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/B0001R041M/ref=cm_cr_dp_pt/104-6988910-3467137?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=172282&s=electronics
> 
> Anybody have any suggestions?  Perfect would be something I could pick
> up a Fry's etc.
> 
> Alternatively I should be able to order something overnight out of
> California still tonight.
> 
> Thanks
> Greg