> Nothing seems to work great with anything above a 2TB drive on a mac
I think that limit was based on some controller chip. Anyway, the current NewerTech Voyager works with drives up to 4TB:
http://www.newertech.com/products/voyagerq.php
I use an earlier version that's fine. Note that some friends have had these units fail. No data lost, just wouldn't start up. But they cost like $75 each, so buy a spare. Or try one of the cheaper/other versions like the one Wilson pointed to. But again, buy a spare or two. My backup unit is the newer/current version. Would be simple to swap it in, but haven't bothered yet because I to use 2TB drives for backup. Works for me...
Jim Feeley
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On Jan 31, 2013, at 5:55 PM, Greg Huson wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
>>
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