dhart
Well-known member
Using single 800 firewire drives on my MacBook Pro has caused my no end of grief. Daisy changing more than two was asking for trouble as all drives did not show up on my desktop consistently. I even had a new logic board installed (luckily under Apple extended warranty) but no luck.
Decided to use a powered firewire hub and all my problems disappeared. I use the Nitro AV hub cause it's extra heavy duty. 7 inputs so I can have 6 drives up at one time. Been running for over 6 weeks and all drives show up on the desktop every morning and more importantly stay there. Appears to be bullet proof.
As we all know have a big project up on a single drive is just asking for trouble. I use a program called SuperDuper! to mirror the drive I'm working to a backup. End of the day start the program to do its thing. Incremental backup so you don't have to re-back everything up every day. Much easier than dragging and dropping because you don't to keep answering "this file already exists..."
Put the backup in my media vault every night. You all have one of those don't you? Fireproof and waterproof.
Decided to use a powered firewire hub and all my problems disappeared. I use the Nitro AV hub cause it's extra heavy duty. 7 inputs so I can have 6 drives up at one time. Been running for over 6 weeks and all drives show up on the desktop every morning and more importantly stay there. Appears to be bullet proof.
As we all know have a big project up on a single drive is just asking for trouble. I use a program called SuperDuper! to mirror the drive I'm working to a backup. End of the day start the program to do its thing. Incremental backup so you don't have to re-back everything up every day. Much easier than dragging and dropping because you don't to keep answering "this file already exists..."
Put the backup in my media vault every night. You all have one of those don't you? Fireproof and waterproof.