Offsite backups for the rest of us?

[Madison Kelly]

Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Walter Dnes wrote:
> 
> 
>>  After looking at this, I'm interested in external 2.5" form factor
>>drives, even though they are pricier.  They're supposed to fit in my
> 
> 
> The 2.5" models also have the advantage that they do not require an 
> external pwoer adapter (at least this applies to the ones I've seen).
> 
> Having said this I standardised on the 3.5" mainly because it was so much 
> easier to get really large drives.

This is true *if* your USB port can supply 500mA/port which many laptops 
don't. For the ones that don't though there is usually a pass-through 
cable that will get some extra power from a secondary USB port and plug 
into the carrier along side the data cable. My PCMCIA usb2 cars also 
came with power adapters that plug into either the card or directly into 
the drive itself.

If you are running on a desktop though you are probably fine power-wise.

Madison

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