How is the mini Pal?

I have had my Mac Mini since March and no problems at all so far but anything can happen.
Having over 3,000 family pictures and over 8 Gigs of music i have finally decided to buy a external back up hard drive so that i can back up all the files in case the hard drive crashes.

So i have been looking around and found Acomdata's mini Pal 160GB External FireWire Hard Drive to be the best deal out there, it sells for about $150 and i can get it for a lot less from my job, but how is the quality compared to brands like Western Digital, are the mini Pal's just a reliable?

I also like the mini Pal because then i can get rid of my HUB and just use the mini Pal as a HUB.

So any feedback here or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, again i really like the mini Pal but if there's something better out there and more reliable then please let me know.

And if the Best Buy stores carry whatever your suggestion is then that's even better 🙂

Posted on Oct 23, 2005 12:57 AM

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Oct 23, 2005 3:20 AM in response to Paul Revere

Paul Revere...

Paul, I may have mentioned this to you once before but just in case... Please do not link to the
Apple Store in that manner. It gives out personal information about you that you may not
want others to have access to. Luckily it does time out (after several minutes) for your protection
but is no good as a future link after that.

Another thing it is too long to properly display in the forum without running away on the screen.

...Ron

Oct 23, 2005 7:29 AM in response to Marat Voznyuk

You have to remember a external is also another hard drive. You really should back up your music to a DVD if possible and Your pics to CD for added protection. Or to a DVD for extra space. It will most likely take 2 DVD for the music. And if you are going external, go 250GB. I got this lacie D2 for $199. and $30. off buy applying for the buy.com credit card and paid $169. check here: http://www.buy.com/retail/searchresults.asp?qu=lacie+d2&search_store=1

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