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Full Featured Pocket Hard Drives?

Posted by Cliff on from the numerous-gigs-in-the-palm-of-your-hand dept.

Lifix asks: "I've recently been asked to be caregiver to about 150 Apple desktops. While building my software kit to handle these machines, I realized that I would need a good portable hard drive to restore the machines from when they crashed. Cost really isn't an issue but I only need enough room for 3 partitions each with restore images of less than 10 gigs, so a 40g drive would be fine. It doesn't have to be designer, it just has to work. Does anyone have any suggestions/experience with a drive thats going to be a small form factor (throw it in my messenger bag/toolkit), reliable, bootable, 7200 rpm (!important!) and support Firewire400/800 and USB 2.0?"

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  1. What? by tsa · · Score: 4, Funny

    Come on man, Apples never crash. Everybody knows that!

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    1. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      They do now, since they now use Intels and can run Microsoft OSes.

  2. Re:Steep requirements by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    How much is that in real money?

  3. Re:Steep requirements by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 5, Funny
    How much is that in real money?

    95.23 pounds.

  4. Dear Slashdot: by voxel · · Score: 2, Funny

    I need something that has storage on it. It should be smaller than a house, but bigger than a head of a pin. I need like 40 gigs of storage on it so I can have some partitions.

    I don't know if this technology exists because I haven't been outside in over 50 years and even though I've heard of these wierd things called "sto-res", I don't know if they REALLY exist.

    Dear Slashdot, please help.

    Sincerely,

    Caveman Burns

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