Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Nov 30, 2010 at 04:29 AM -0800, Richard Man wrote: > An ESATA won't do you any good if you don't have a ESATA connector on your > machine. Come to think of it, I don't think any Mac has one except for the > Mac Pro, so... go get a firewire drive, it's much faster than USB2. Some of the Macbook Pros (17", and some of the earlier 15" I thought) have an ExpressCard slot, or some other expansion slot on the side. The newer ones just have an SD card slot (thanks Apple). Anyways, you can buy ExpressCard eSATA card and use your eSATA drives that way. Something to think about if you've got the slot. It's talked about here: <http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/11/photoshop-performance-saga.html> Also, I'd get a backup drive before you take anymore pictures. Seriously. It will be a sad day when your drive goes up and you lose all of your images. Spend $100 and get a second external drive. Buy something like SuperDuper! and create a job in it where it does a smart copy of your main drive to the second drive whenever the second drive is mounted. Then once a day, or once a week, or whatever, just plug in the second drive and it will copy over the new files automatically. Then unplug it. If you are really into it, buy a third drive and keep it at work. Once a week, take the work drive home and take the home drive to work. That way you have another backup that's only a week behind but in a different location.