1/10/2023 0 Comments Fabrik ultimate backup software![]() ![]() Which brings us to the present, and the topic of this review, the SimpleDrive Pro Drive that comes in 500 gigabyte, 750 gigabyte, and one terabyte capacities. It’s also not bootable, but has been excellent as a Time Machine backup volume for my 17-inch PowerBook’s 80 GB drive. It’s not much help with my older laptops that don’t support USB 2 (they will mount via USB 1.1 in a pinch, but that’s miserably slow for anything but very small file transfers). The Pininfarina SimpleDrive, styled by the same Italian design house that has done most Ferrari automobiles for the past fifty years or so, looks great, and has performed when likewise within the limitations of USB 2. It’s served as a backup volume and and emergency/troubleshooting boot drive, although 20 gigabytes has being inadequate for global backups for some time now.Įnter a simpleTech SimpleDrive Pininfarina USB 2.0 external hard drive with twenty-five times the capacity (500 gigabytes) of that Pismo drive, and which has been my main backup volume for about two years now, segueing me nicely with into the OS X 10.5 Leopard Time Machine era. The original 6GB Fujitsu drive unit actually failed early on, but I replaced it first with a 10 gigabyte drive pulled from my WallStreet, and later on with the original 20 gigabyte Toshiba unit from my oldest Pismo. I used that little QPS a lot over next several years. FireWire throughput seemed as fast or faster than SCSI, but unlike SCSI it wasn’t finicky, and being a hot-pluggable, you didn’t have to shut down your system to mount or disconnect the drive. It originally had a 6 gigabyte Fujitsu 2.5-inch laptop drive in it, and worked great with the MacAlly PC Cardbus FireWire adapter I had in my WallStreet PowerBook. By comparison, the QPS Que M2 FireWire hard drive that arrived here in 2001 was a revelation. You could boot the Classic Mac OS just fine from Zip Disk, but it wasn’t an especially robust or fast medium. I dabbled a bit with Zip disks and a SCSI Zip Drive for a few years in the late ‘90s. It was loud, but a lot more convenient that swapping floppies, and SCSI is a fast I/O. The Plus was designed to boot from an 800k floppy disk, but also supported external drives through its SCSI interface, and the original owner had added a whopping big 20 MB MacCrate drive by Seagate. I am a big fan of the external hard drive, I suppose dating back to the one that came with my very first Mac, a compact Mac Plus back in the early ‘90s. ‘Book Mystique Review: SimpleTech SimpleTech PRO1000Q Pro Drive Quad Interface 1TB External Hard Drive Home > Columns > Charles Moore The 'Book Mystique
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