All teched up
7:12 pm on the 24th of January, 2006I feel pretty well kitted out at the moment. I seem to have been on something of a shopping spree, but it’s all been pretty cheap.
It all started off so innocently with a microphone/earphone/headset thingy for a whole penny. Then I found a (very) cheap hard drive, I’ve wanted a way of backing up my files for ages and this seemed perfect. Unfortunately as soon as I had clicked to buy it I realised that it was an internal drive! What a schoolboy error! Anyhow, I also got a little USB gadget that acts as a wireless network card, that way I could also backup my desktop machine and transfer across all the files I want onto the laptop.
Then, having wondered what to do about my useless internal drive - which I also found out to be SATA and not IDE as advertised - I stumbled across the idea of an enclosure. You install your internal drive in a metal box which has an adapter so you can plug it into the USB port of any machine. Perfect!
I got it all set up tonight, using the refreshingly simple and effective Maxblast from Maxtor to create partitions and format the drive before setting up a regular backup using the bogstandard backup tool on windows. The first backup should finish in a few minutes.
Just for an extra bit of showmanship I’ve had the webcam out as well while I wrote this post. You can see my lovely new enclosure on flickr.
Good night, I’m off to write an essay.
[tags]gadgets, drives, maxtor[/tags]
