Comments on: How to back up your Mac – Time Machine http://www.metaphoriclabs.com/articles/how-to-back-up-your-mac-time-machine/ Experiential Serendipity Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:06:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chuck Lawson http://www.metaphoriclabs.com/articles/how-to-back-up-your-mac-time-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-1622 Chuck Lawson Fri, 02 May 2008 15:10:20 +0000 http://www.metaphoriclabs.com/?p=1226#comment-1622 Hi Michael! You could absolutely use additional drives in your tower (most of us Mac folk don't have that option :-) ) -- it might increase the odds slightly that something bad could happen to both the computer and drives (power supply failing catastrophically, perhaps?), but on the other hand, it should be way faster than an external USB or Firewire drive, and bare drives are cheaper to buy than external drives in an enclosure. I ran the numbers on Jungle Disk awhile back, and at my current rate of usage, it looks like it'd be a wash price-wise between it and Mozy -- Amazon charges ala carte, but it's cheap. Hi Michael!

You could absolutely use additional drives in your tower (most of us Mac folk don’t have that option :-) ) — it might increase the odds slightly that something bad could happen to both the computer and drives (power supply failing catastrophically, perhaps?), but on the other hand, it should be way faster than an external USB or Firewire drive, and bare drives are cheaper to buy than external drives in an enclosure.

I ran the numbers on Jungle Disk awhile back, and at my current rate of usage, it looks like it’d be a wash price-wise between it and Mozy — Amazon charges ala carte, but it’s cheap.

]]> By: Michael Tribone http://www.metaphoriclabs.com/articles/how-to-back-up-your-mac-time-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-1621 Michael Tribone Fri, 02 May 2008 14:57:50 +0000 http://www.metaphoriclabs.com/?p=1226#comment-1621 Could I just as easily add 2 additional drives to my tower instead of adding external drives? Is there a benefit in cost or performance either way? I've also been looking at Jungle Disk as a remote option, but not only do you pay per GB you also pay for upload/download transmission rates. Could I just as easily add 2 additional drives to my tower instead of adding external drives? Is there a benefit in cost or performance either way? I’ve also been looking at Jungle Disk as a remote option, but not only do you pay per GB you also pay for upload/download transmission rates.

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