Great deal on an external hard drive

[jcblitz]

I don't know how many of you backup your computers, but I seriously advise it. Newegg has a great deal on a lacie external drive, 320 gig with usb 2.0/firewire 400/firewire 800. So basically it will work on any machine. I haven't found a comparable drive for the same price (with firewire 800, not all machines support) and this will be my 4th lacie, I definitely trust them. Thought I'd just pass this along since I just ordered one and have been looking for this drive to be on sale for a while.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822154161

[Cakes206]

That is a great deal...talk about a lot of eggs in one basket though.

[jcblitz]

I'll be using this to mirror my laptop weekly on account of the firewire 800. I'm also going to redundantly mirror my other external data drive just because I have the room. Better than loosing 160 gigs like I did 2 years ago :(

[JimRBlue]

Thats a pretty good bang for the buck.

[jcblitz]

If you only need usb 2.0, there are a lot better deals out there. Like Cavalry 200GB USB 2.0 (http://www.buy.com/prod/Cavalry_200GB_USB_2_0_7200RPM_External_Hard_Drive/q/loc/58207/204143288.html?adid=17662), but I wanted FW800 which was tough to find in a decent sive drive under $200.

[liquiddevil2000]

yeah my hardrive died not too long ago and i cant stress enough that u guys should back your pc's once in a while...
luckily i was able to save all my important stuff (porn! ;) )

[jcblitz]

http://mozy.com/

I gave the free 2 gig account a try this weekend and ended up buying the unlimited account this morning. For $55 a year you can't go wrong with off site, unlimited backup. Everything worked great for me out of the box. I have a really fast connection so I'm uploading 1.0 Mb/s, but I also have 120 gigs of data to backup so the initial upload is going to take a day or so. But after that it's a "difference" backup so that only files that changed have to get transmitted for that backup.

I recommend at least signing up for the free 2 gig account if you're looking to back up some photos or documents. It's not a trial account, it's a full version but with a 2 gig limit.