Storage & Backup Topic Center

Review: My Passport Studio portable hard drive

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:50:00 -0700

The My Passport Studio is a portable hard drive that’s bus powered—it doesn’t include a power adapter. The drive ships in a Mac-friendly format, and works with Leopard’s built-in disk back up utility, Time Machine.

Stay in Sync: Sync your files

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:21:00 -0700

Using specialized utilities, you can synchronize file between Macs with minimal setup.

TimeMachineEditor 1.3

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:50:00 -0700

If you’ve ever wanted to change Time Machine’s schedule, Time Software's TimeMachineEditor lets you do just that. You can tweak the interval so that Time Machine backs up every, say, four hours, or you can choose to have Time Machine back up once a day, once a week, or once a month.

Review: Little Big Disk Quadra 500GB portable hard drive

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:01:00 -0700

LaCie’s Little Big Disk Quadra is a high capacity, portable storage device that can be powered off of a FireWire connection. It will cost you considerably more than a similar capacity desktop drive, but its RAID configuration helps keep the drive competitive with desktop drives in terms of performance.

In case of emergency

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:24:00 -0700

In a summer full of natural disasters how prepared are you (and your Mac) for unanticipated emergencies?

Bugs & Fixes: Resolving confusion with LaCie’s drive updates

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:01:00 -0700

Trying to update his LaCie d2 DVD±RW drive, Ted Landau came across some convoluted Update Tools for the external drive.

SmartBackup 2.2

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:50:00 -0700

There are many good backup utilities out there, and the number of choices is growing. What makes FreeRideCoding'sSmartBackup 2.2.4 unique is that it lets you define files to be backed up using saved Spotlight searches.

Western Digital unveils 1TB drive, repackages product lines

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:42:00 -0700

Western Digital Tuesday unveiled a new family of 3.5-inch hard drives offering capacities of 750GB and 1TB for desktop and multi-drive systems.

Review: LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Disk

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:29:00 -0700

As an external hard drive, LaCie's d2 Quadra Hard Disk is versatile in terms of connection support, generous in terms of software bundles, and solid in terms of performance. If you’re in the market for an external hard drive, the d2 Quadra Hard Disk definitely deserves your consideration.

Review: Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II hard drive

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:12:00 -0700

Western Digital's My Book Studio Edition II external hard drive provides fast performance and a ton of data storage (1TB, in this case) in a box that's bigger than a dictionary.

Seagate plans SSD, 2TB hard drive for next year

Thu, 29 May 2008 13:50:00 -0700

Seagate will introduce its first solid-state drive storage and 2T-byte hard drive next year, the company's CEO Bill Watkins said.

OWC offers new 20x DVD-burning SuperDrives

Thu, 22 May 2008 10:35:00 -0700

OWC is now shipping faster SuperDrives for many older Mac models, starting at $31.99.

Bugs & Fixes: Time Machine holdups

Fri, 16 May 2008 09:52:00 -0700

Ted Landau’s Time Machine backups began sticking at the “Preparing…” stage of starting a backup. So he did some digging to find out what was causing the problem.

Report: Time Capsule sales strong, not hurting AirPort

Wed, 14 May 2008 13:04:00 -0700

Apple's Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme have taken the top spot in U.S. sales, with no signs that Time Capsule is slowing AirPort's popularity.