Seagate Backup Plus

[ernie]

Picked up a one TB from Costco today. Just waiting for my poor little VAIO to load it all up. It has such an old processor. I'm just lucky I have not lost everything already. Its a testament to VAIO and vista superiority. Lol
This might take a whole 24 hours.

 

[Nick]

vista superiority.

 

[ernie]

vista superiority.

Ha ha Nick, yea its slow but stays on target. The noble VAIO is reliable, like an old Chevy pickup.

I think I might start to by parts an build a new desktop, maybe water cooled. Oh can I use some automotive coolant in it instead? My kid built his and his brothers desktops that are like nothing dell or anyone makes production wise. I'm not a laptop fan.

 

[FloorMaven]

Picked up a one TB from Costco today.

I bought a seagate 2tb drive from Costco too. It's a network drive though. I use it for backup and media. I can stream any of my media remotely.

 

[Nick]

Ha ha Nick, yea its slow but stays on target. The noble VAIO is reliable, like an old Chevy pickup.

I think I might start to by parts an build a new desktop, maybe water cooled. Oh can I use some automotive coolant in it instead? My kid built his and his brothers desktops that are like nothing dell or anyone makes production wise. I'm not a laptop fan.

I'm not a laptop fan myself . Spend to much time on the desktop fixing confusers for friends [etc]. Get the automotive coolant.

 

[FloorMaven]

Actually its the go flex home, but with 700 gigs on it I need another drive to back that one up.

 

[Ernesto]

I got burned for 69.5 GB! It really only has 931.5 GB of space.

 

[Nick]

One of the best backup software out there is Acronis true image .

You can do a disk image with also .

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

 

[Ernesto]

hmmm, I guess I have everything backed up. I have only 2 gigs of space left on the ole hard drive. So its getting to be critical mass. I don't want to just delete all my krap, I wanna move it off the hard drive. I thought this was an extra hard drive where I could just go fetch stuff. But it seems to be just for backing stuff up.

I might need one like Ken has perhaps?

 

[Ernesto]

On that note, I've heard of back-ups crashing along with the puter and then ya gots nuthing.

Had a huge surge this morning and everything went down. Scared the bejesus outa me.

 

[Nick]

Not following you E . You bought and installed a new drive on your confuser ?

It should have a different drive letter . Back up to that drive . You should get a prompt as to where you want the backup to go to .

 

[Nick]

What os are you running on the confuser ? XP, Win 7
I'll post a link for ya to make a bootable CD . Not all boot software Are the same , I'll send you a good one .

 

[FloorMaven]

I thought this was an extra hard drive where I could just go fetch stuff.

Isn't it partitioned to x, y and z? Public, personal and backup?

 

[Nick]

partitioned still keeps the backup on the same hard drive Floor .
Best way to do it is to use a external hard drive .

 

[Nick]

Bootable Cd Software . [Free].

http://en.kioskea.net/download/download-1221-ultimate-boot-cd

 

[FloorMaven]

partitioned still keeps the backup on the same hard drive Floor .
Best way to do it is to use a external hard drive .

The seagate back up plus is an external drive. If its anything like my seagate goflex than its partitioned like I mentioned. I would imagine the plus part means you can use it for more than back ups.

 

[Ernesto]

The seagate back up plus is an external drive. If its anything like my seagate goflex than its partitioned like I mentioned. I would imagine the plus part means you can use it for more than back ups.

I thought the plus meant it also has cloud.Yes it is external plus portable. Maybe I better read the manual.

Isn't it partitioned to x, y and z? Public, personal and backup?

Yup. And it is only a tad larger than my cell phone. If you put your hand on it you can feel it spinning.

 

[Ernesto]

Heres the skinny on it.

http://www.seagate.com/files/www-co...s/backup-plus-portable-ds1756-1-1204-amer.pdf

 

[Nick]

The seagate back up plus is an external drive. If its anything like my seagate goflex than its partitioned like I mentioned. I would imagine the plus part means you can use it for more than back ups.

Just checking to make sure you weren't backing up to the same drive Floor .

 

[Ernesto]

Just checking to make sure you weren't backing up to the same drive Floor .

Appreciate it.