Need another External HD for Backups, have....

[Microman]

A couple of small 2.5" cases with 120 gig drives, but they are two small.

Have a Firewire Original External HD, with 80 gigs, that I am thinking of upgrading to 500gigs or 1 TB., for faster backups.

Or I could just buy another external 1 Gig at Costco.

What I would like to do is take all this Karaoke I have and back it up on two HD's. so that I dont lose it.

Then after getting my main HD, on my black Macbook cleaned up of files I dont want to backup, to turn Time Machine on, and do a backup.

Where is there a deal now. Costco, has a 4 TB external for 149.xx Wonder if I could move the drives from the FW over to it, and get the faster speed for 4 TB.

Ideas, welcome

[jdc]

Buy new.

Ten bucks says those old cases have IDE connections, all current bare drives are SATA.

FW400 vs USB 2 speed is pretty minimal for just file access.

[ka jowct]

If the enclosure with the 80GB drive is old enough, it might be limited to IDE drives no larger than 128 GB.

[Speedy]

FireWire is dead.

[DeusxMac]

Speedy wrote:
FireWire is dead.

May have been superseded by faster connections, but why waste an available connection?
Especially if it's a FW800; decent speed for non-critical activities.

[samintx]

how about a TB drive for unlimited storage?

[ka jowct]

Not sure what you mean by "original" Firewire. 1st generation from at least 10 years ago? If so, you will not be able to add a current HD to it for the reasons already given: interface, plus limitation on drive size.

[mjgkramer]

Another thing to consider for back ups is a dock so you can use bare drive mechanisms for unlimited storage. There are some with capacity for two drives.