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newb questions regarding adding a HD…can someone please translate into simple terms
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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 311421" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>Brice0501, you may also wish to consider G-Drives, which make a drive whose enclosure perfectly matches the style of your Mac Pro. See:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.g-technology.com/Products/G-DRIVE.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.g-technology.com/Products/G-DRIVE.cfm</a></p><p></p><p>I am using their external drives and they are working very well. The technology is no slouch either. You can (and should!) get the FW800 drives. The FW400, which I have, run very fast - fastest external drives I have ever benchmarked, coming in at a sustained transfer rate of 33 MB/s against the theoretical FW400 maximum of 40 MB/s. I suspect the FW800 would be faster - wish I had known about them when I bought mine.</p><p></p><p>I use mine just like you suggest - my main drive on the machine itself does all the heavy lifting, and I use the external G-Drives for backup only. I have two of the drives, and do a rotating backup. I keep one drive at the office and one drive at home. Each time I do a backup (about once a month, or more if I am generating lots of new stuff) I rotate the drives. This way, even if (god forbid) my house should be destroyed or my office should be destroyed, I still have my precious data - in this case, about 10 years of digital photos and my whole iTunes collection.</p><p></p><p>So, I would recommend considering G-Drives, getting two of them, and instituting a rotating backup. The ultimate in data security!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 311421, member: 17052"] Brice0501, you may also wish to consider G-Drives, which make a drive whose enclosure perfectly matches the style of your Mac Pro. See: [url]http://www.g-technology.com/Products/G-DRIVE.cfm[/url] I am using their external drives and they are working very well. The technology is no slouch either. You can (and should!) get the FW800 drives. The FW400, which I have, run very fast - fastest external drives I have ever benchmarked, coming in at a sustained transfer rate of 33 MB/s against the theoretical FW400 maximum of 40 MB/s. I suspect the FW800 would be faster - wish I had known about them when I bought mine. I use mine just like you suggest - my main drive on the machine itself does all the heavy lifting, and I use the external G-Drives for backup only. I have two of the drives, and do a rotating backup. I keep one drive at the office and one drive at home. Each time I do a backup (about once a month, or more if I am generating lots of new stuff) I rotate the drives. This way, even if (god forbid) my house should be destroyed or my office should be destroyed, I still have my precious data - in this case, about 10 years of digital photos and my whole iTunes collection. So, I would recommend considering G-Drives, getting two of them, and instituting a rotating backup. The ultimate in data security! [/QUOTE]
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