Best External Hard Drive

[smknSRT8]

I am looking to get my dad into backing up his information on his laptop since he stores a lot of information on his laptop. Any ideas?

Also, since he won't make the switch to Mac, I am looking for something similar to Time Machine where it can backup automatically maybe have an interface? Is there anything out there?

[freakydeaky dutch bastard]

Any external drive with a decent consumer rating at Tiger direct will do.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=8&name=Hard-Disk-Drives

Then get Syncback, it's free:

"It lets you define multiple scheduled backup jobs so you can just set 'em and forget 'em, allowing users to create specific backup jobs for certain folders or file types. You can control the way files are compared and selected for backup: the program comes with ready-made profiles to make the process as easy as possible. It's hard not to like that SyncBack doesn't use many system resources when working in the background, and backups can be set to export their logs to an HTML file for easy viewing. All in all, it's an excellent choice for home users and small businesses."

http://www.download.com/SyncBack/3000-2242_4-10413802.html

[smknSRT8]

Thanks Bastard!!

I am going to look into more programs to really get the best one. Anyone ever use the Windows one?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/bott_03july14.mspx

[freakydeaky dutch bastard]

no prob.. and that dude on the microshaft page totally looks like a 40 year old virgin.. :tounge:

http://img.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/windowsxp/images/using/windowsmessenger/expert/hs_bott_lg.jpg

[xanderblue]

no prob.. and that dude on the microshaft page totally looks like a 40 year old virgin.. :tounge:

http://img.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/windowsxp/images/using/windowsmessenger/expert/hs_bott_lg.jpg
maybe older.