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mr-rick 22 Sep 2005 17:36:52 1,044 posts
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my mate's just got an ipod and very excited about it he is too.

However he's absolutely terrified about losing his Ipod and all his songs.

Not knowing how they work but I assume his Itunes would have a back up saved on his lap top, but as an extra precaution he seemed very keen on removable drives when I mentioned them to him to save a backup on.

Is this a good idea? And do any of you use a good removable drives? It wouldn't need to be massive, maybe 40 or 60gigs as he only has a 20gig ipod.

If it's a good idea (which I'm not sure if it is?) he'd probably not want to spend more than Ł50 or Ł60 and ideally it would be quite small.

Any ideas from any of you mac loving ipodders would be appreciated.

mr-rick 23 Sep 2005 10:58:38 1,044 posts
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/bump starts

Sorry, I know it's not the most interesting of threads but I'd appreciate any advice

cheers

mr-rick 23 Sep 2005 11:02:16 1,044 posts
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wasp, what make is your drive, maybe they do a smaller cheaper model?

tombo 23 Sep 2005 11:18:36 2,170 posts
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It depends on what system they've got.
It's not much trouble if they've got a tower, they can just buy an internal drive. They're generally cheaper.

But externals are popular too, because you can take them anywhere or for real backups you just put them in a drawer. Our nextdoor neighbour is a photographer and he gives us his harddrive when he goes on hols.

Cancom are quite a good reseller. It's quite hard to find drives smaller than 80GB now. But I did a little digging.

My dad uses a shareware app called Synchronize but the Backup util is good too. All automatic.

mr-rick 23 Sep 2005 11:23:15 1,044 posts
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thanks Tombo,

he's got a lappy so it needs to be removable, and portable.

I'll have a look at that site.

Cheers

deem 23 Sep 2005 11:43:48 31,667 posts
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mr-rick 23 Sep 2005 11:54:47 1,044 posts
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deem, that sounds a good deal.

I'll ask him, although I think he wanted something a bit bigger, even though his ipod is only 20gb

edit, just realised you said 40gb, although you'd linked to the 20gb model.

he may definitely be interested in that.

Edited by mr rick at 11:57:58 23-09-2005