By Steven McGurn •
@mtl_steve
I’ve been wrestling with our home backup strategy for over a year now. A little background: We made the switch from PC to Mac in February 2008. Since then I have shed away my previous strategy of using SyncToy with an external USB hard drive, combined with a slew of 16GB thumb drives held at a top secret offsite location.
I now rely on Time Machine, working in tandem with a 1TB LaCie d2 Quadra hard drive. As hard rives go, this is a beauty. It comes with the following connections:
- Firewire 400
- Firewire 800
- USB 2
- eSATA
It also uses the aluminum chassis effectively as a heat sink, making for an fairly quiet running drive.
Most people would end it there. Continue reading Storage is Cheap
By Eric Schultzter •
@Schultzter
Following on my trials and tribulations of getting backup routine going for my NAS, I’m pleased to announce I’m more-or-less there! [...]
By Steven McGurn •
@mtl_steve
So now that my iTunes and iPhoto setup is done (sort of), I moved my attention to trying to create the first of hopefully many family movies that will inevitably embarrass the kids (hopefully they’ll still pick a suitable retirement home for their mom & dad!).
The importing of existing videos from the external hard drive that was salvaged from the HP and placed in an external enclosure was seamless. The videos were added to events and their date/time stamps were visible to iMovie. This helped in annotating and adding bottom thirds to my movie. The clips can also be filtered by criteria, thus showing the clips that made sense to use as source matter. So far, I’m liking iMovie over Premiere Elements.
Continue reading PC to Mac Switching Pains (Part 2)
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