[ale] External disk recommendation

[Jeff Hubbs]

Is the iMac new enough to have Firewire? If so, use that and an 
appropriate enclosure.

On 5/19/16 11:07 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2016 15:57:58 -0400
> Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is a resend. For some reason the mailer said it would wait a
>> couple days to resend and I told my wife I'd try to order the drive
>> sooner.
>>
>>
>> My wife has an old Mac and I'm looking at a ~2 TB or so external drive
>> for her. Looking at the Seagate Expansion 2TB Desktop External Hard
>> Drive USB 3.0 (STEB2000100)
>> (http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB2000100/dp/B00TKFEE9E).
>>
>> Her computer is USB 2, and older iMac. Is there a better drive in the
>> $100 range? Speed isn't as important as reliability.
>>
>> Thanks!
> I'd rather record my data on a cassette recorder, as was done from the
> Timex Sinclair computers of 1982, than trust my data to a Seagate
> product. If I were in your shoes, I'd hold out for a Western Digital
> product. Still not the utmost in reliability, but compared to Seagate,
> it's Fort Knox.
>
> I've had seagates blow up on me in matters of months. The quickest a
> Western Digital ever blew out on me was about 18 months, and I've had
> quite a few last 5 years.
>
> SteveT
>
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