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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. real money by gizmo_mathboy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    With more and more oil producing countries moving to the Euro, I would say that the US dollar is slowly becoming funny money.

    1. Re:real money by innosent · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      And given the future of the global economy, you might want to start calling the Yuan (China) real money. But certainly, the Euro is a much better global choice than the US Dollar, and if China ever stops artificially lowering their exchange rate, the Yuan will probably be the strongest currency. After all, if you have over 1/5th of the world population using it, it must be a pretty good candidate for "real money". The dollar may be relatively strong, but only around 1/20th of the population really use it. (Not counting international business transactions, since the currency used really makes no difference.)

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    2. Re:real money by sumdumass · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The amount of people using it doesn't really describe it's worth. China doesn't value thier money on open exchange like the rest of the world does. The control it in a closed form.

      This is the reason they are lowering thier exchange "artificialy" as you put it. Raising it would offset some of the incentives for outsourcing manufacturing and other job to them. The influx of money allows them to feed thier coutnries style in ways comunism never thought of. In essence it is a comunist country capitolizing on other countries' greed which is probably one reason why comunism seems to work here.

  2. Re:Steep requirements by tsa · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    139 euros.

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  3. Who else? by Bootle · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Who else read that subject as "Looking for a full-featured pocket rocket" ?

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  4. Re:Steep requirements by TheSalzar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Another HP, I once loved a laserjet it grew very old, i was tempted by the whore of a brother on sale. Man is it slow, man is it nosiey, also trips my surge protector when it prints. BUY a LASERJET dont cheap ur self.

  5. Re:Steep requirements by Planesdragon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't buy a laserjet. Heck, don't buy any printer that demands that you return every functional component after a single tonor cycle.