This 'bare drive in a toaster' is our methodology for archiving, too. I use the newertech and just about whatever else I can find- just got a SIGG that has the ability to clone drives! We added an eSata card to our library/archive MacPro to take advantage of the cheaper toasters that don't have a firewire connection. Make sure the drive has the right connector on it - a lot of them are USB2 only, and that's kind worthless for archiving/copying, but eSata works good.
Nothing seems to work great with anything above a 2TB drive on a mac - has to do with the formatting of the drive, if I understand correctly, but we stick with 2tb drives so there's no hassle or surprise when the drive doesn't spin up in a different 'toaster.' We make two copies of everything when archiving.
Not as permanent or reliable as LTO, but much faster for restore. For shipping around, we still use g-drive minis and a similar note-book type drive from Maxx digital, without any trouble. I tried to talk a couple of people we regularly exchange files with into switching to SSDs, but they didn't want to add the drive docks (toasters.) (yes, god forbid your employer spends $40 to save a half hour of your computer time!)
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On Jan 31, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Dan McCabe <danlist@bestmail.us> wrote:
> I've been thinking of going the bare drive route. Anyone have specific
> experience with a specific drive dock?
>
> OWC has the NewerTech Voyager that unlike the one at Amazon below is
> hot-swappable (but the NewerTech holds only one drive.)
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013, at 03:29 PM, Wilson Chao wrote:
>
> Get yourself a bunch of bare drives and some drive docks like this:
> [1]http://www.amazon.com/Vantec-NexStar-2-5-Inch-3-5-Inch-NST-D400SU3/d
> p/B007XJIYRC/
> Then if one of the docks dies, just toss it and get another.
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:15 PM, ksirul [2]kenavid2@glueedit.com>
> wrote:
> In the past 2 months, I've had 2 G-Tech drives stop working (powers
> on but the drives don't spin) and this morning, a mini-G-Tech's fan
> stopped working and the drive has problems spinning up. What is it
> with these drives? Yea yea, I know, drives die, but G-Tech drives have
> consistantly been problematic lately. Anyone else seen this? What else
> should I use other than Glyph?
> _
>
> References
>
> 1. http://www.amazon.com/Vantec-NexStar-2-5-Inch-3-5-Inch-NST-D400SU3/dp/B007XJIYRC/
> 2. mailto:kenavid2%40glueedit.com
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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