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When was the last time you did a backup?

If you are like some people, it’s probably

been a while. Why? Because it’s probably a

pain! Right? And although your computer

is likely equipped with a CD burner, it would

still take too many blanks and too much

time to do a backup. Sound familiar?

While there is no lack of options, a

painless solution to backup or even to use

as auxiliary storage is an external hard drive.

Bare drives are getting to the point where

they are almost free. Last week I purchased

a 3.5” 160GB hard drive for a net price of

$79. (That’s $159; less the mail-in rebate

I’ll get by summer time). That 2GB for a

loonie – way better than the $300 I spent a

couple of years back for a 30GB drive.

To connect externally to your computer,

your drive needs a housing or an enclosure.

Veteran computer users will remember the

trials and tribulations they had to overcome

to connect in the past. Remember SCSI?

USB/FireWire Enclosures

External enclosures come in all different

shapes and sizes to support 2.5”, the average

laptop size drive, the more common 3.5”

drive as used in most computers and even

5.25” drives.

Most enclosures use either a Universal

Serial Bus (USB) interface (1.1or 2.0) or a

FireWire (IEEE1384 ) high- speed interface

or a combination of the two. SCSI interfaces

are still used but are less common now and

not part of this exercise.

If you use a PC, you’ll likely use the USB

interface, unless you have a FireWire card

in your computer. (Nix the USB 1.1 because

it’s painfully slow)

If you use a Macintosh, all models in the

last few years shipped standard with at least

one FireWire port. To be safe and ready for

all occasions, get a combo unit – it has both

ports on the back. This is the one I use.

Easy to Use

The particular unit I chose doesn’t really

have a brand name on it – it’s just called the

2316C combo. It measures 206x132x50mm

and weighs about 1/2 kg. It has one USB

2.0 port, one FireWire ports (Also called

IEEE1394), a power jack and a power

switch.

For most enclosure kits, you don’t need a

technician or a Ph.D. Typically, two screws

and the aluminum cover slides off the main

chassis. This unit allows me to slide the

bare drive directly into the appropriate spot

where the two connectors attach to the drive.

It snaps in like Lego. No wires or internal

cables and no tiny pin connectors to

challenge your eyesight. Depending on your

system configuration, you may need to

jumper the drive as a master or slave –

those directions are usually written right on

the bare drive itself.

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a Great Investment

By Greg Gazin,

Gadget Guy

Two small screws are supplied to

optionally secure the drive to the chassis. I

opt not to use them so I can slide out my

drive and insert another when I choose to

do so.

Very Compatible

This enclosure, as most are, is compatible

with Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP and

(USB 2.0 Driver is supplied, if necessary)

and Macintosh OS 9.0, OS X and higher.

They are very easy to use. Hook up the

drive with the appropriate cable to your

computer, power up. Follow the supplied

instructions. Install the driver if necessary.

What’s also nice is that the drives are true

Plug N’ Play and hot swappable. And unlike

the old days of the parallel, serial or SCSI

drive, you can use your external without

having to power down the machine.

I mainly use a laptop and I wouldn’t even

dream of attempting to replace my internal

hard disk. I have two FireWire enclosures.

The first one I use as an offsite storage, the

second one, I just replaced my 30GB with

the 160GB I mentioned earlier and have it

partitioned into 4 sets of just under 40GB.

I’m now using 2 partitions for rotating

backups and the other 2 for just stuff.

The reality is that at one point in time we

may need to rely on a backup of our drives

data. Furthermore, as applications get bigger

and bigger and we collect more stuff –

thousands of MP3 files and digital photos,

we’re going to need more storage. For

under $100, external enclosures allow

portability and the flexibility of swapping

drives is truly the answer and a great

investment too.

Apple Speed Bumps Power Mac

Last week, Apple released upgraded

versions of the professional Power Mac G5

models, increasing CPU speeds, adding

larger hard drives, providing a faster 16X

SuperDrive with double-layer support, and

installing 512 MB of RAM for each model.

The single-processor 1.8 GHz Power Mac

G5 remains available for $1,500, but the

stock dual-processor models now ship at

$2,000 (dual 2.0 GHz PowerPC G5, 160

GB hard disk, ATI Radeon 9600 video card,

and 3 PCI slots), $2,500 (dual 2.3 GHz

PowerPC G5, 250 GB hard drive, ATI

Radeon 9600, 3 PCI-X slots), and $3,000

(dual 2.7 GHz PowerPC G5, 250 GB hard

drive, ATI Radeon 9650 with 30-inch

Cinema Display support, and 3 PCI-X slots).

For comparison, the previous three steps

were dual 1.8 GHz, dual 2.0 GHz, and dual

2.5 GHz. Also interesting is the new 16x

SuperDrive with double-layer support that

enables you to burn up to 8.5 GB on a

single double-layer DVD. All the dual-

processor systems ship with Mac OS X

10.4 Tiger.

<http://www.apple.com/ powermac/>

The release date matches fairly well with

the trends I identified in "Take Control of

Buying a Mac," which indicate that Power

Mac revisions tend to appear in the middle

and end-of-year time frames. This one

comes slightly earlier than previous releases

but was undoubtedly affected by the Tiger

release schedule. If Apple stays true to form,

I'd predict another speed bump toward the

end of this year, probably to 3 GHz, and a

major upgrade in the middle of 2006 since

the Power Mac line tends to go three years

between significant changes. [ACE]

iPhoto 5.0.1 Fixes Annoying

Bugs

Apple released iPhoto 5.0.1 via Software

Update to address a variety of bugs in the

company's photo management software. In

particular, iPhoto 5.0.1 improves the process

of upgrading iPhoto 4 libraries, makes

dragging of albums into folders work better,

solves crashing problems with books, and

addresses issues with importing of MPEG-

4 movies. The update is only 2.7 MB and

Apple is recommending it for all iPhoto 5

users.

http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/

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