Questions about purchase of external hard drive to back up digital pics

[Brambor]

I think the FAT32 limit is for using it with CF Cards. If you did not want to use it like that and only as an external drive then you wouldn't have a problem as you could use NTFS. No problem with Linux either. But if you just wanted to use it as external drive then 3.5" Hard Drive enclosures and 3.5" Hard Disks are cheaper per megabyte than 2.5" Disks.

 

[Edelweiss]

External Hard Drive Purchase

Hi All-

After reading all of your informative, thoughtful posts and doing more research, I purchased a Seagate dual interface (USB and Firewire) 300 GB external hard drive for $149.00 through Amazon.com. It uses "BounceBack" software which works well with my Mac. I can backup my entire hard drive or use the cafeteria style option. I can back up manually or set it to schedule automatic back ups. It's quiet and sits unobtrusively to the side of the computer. I'm very pleased with the purchase.
Thanks again for your help!

Joanne

 

[Brambor]

I am just in a process of signing up for a JungleDisk - S3 technology. This will change the way I store images again and for the foreseeable future. I can pop 100Gigs to online storage for a fraction of a cost of my already cheap hard drive enclosure.

Check out this article for more information:
http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/01/backing_up_aperture_with_amazo.html