

Up as two pairs: one drive of each pair as the “primary”, or drive that I actually use on one machine, and the other as “backup” onĪnother machine, mirroring the primary via a script run automatically each night.

Since they’re relatively inexpensive I actually have them set I use the other four for data storage at home.Įven though these drives are small and rugged, I take no chances. Travel, for both data and photographs I take when on the road. One of my five drives sits in my backpack for backup as I One of its most appealing features is that it does not need an additional external power supply this model is poweredĬompletely via its USB connection.

The version I use has a capacity of 500 Gigabytes, all in a package that’s smaller than a paperback book. With that having been said, today the FreeAgent Go is an incredibly handy and valuable device. The external drive I recommended some years ago is no longer even being made. One of the problems with recommending a specific disk drive is that drives change, capacities increase and what I might tell youĪbout today may not even be available next year. If that isn’t a recommendation I don’t know what is.
