Digital BW, The Print

on 11/15/01 1:38 PM, SKID Photography wrote:

> Technology is partially solving the problem.  When we got our Mac G4 we went
> from 240 mgs to 27 gigs, which we
> thought was Nirvana.  Now, we are chomping through those 27 gigs and have
> recently bought into a new Iomega
> system called the 'Peerless'.  It's similar in function to a Zip Disk system,
> except it's Firewire transfer
> (very fast) and each disk holds 20 gigs.  These disks are really IBM hard
> drives that have been made
> interchangeable and shock (like from falling) protected.
> 
> The initial cost is around $400 and extra 20 gig disks are around @200 each.

For swappable drives that does sound like a nice system.

While perhaps not as versatile, I buy additional internal hard drives. For
under $200 I get top of the line IBM 60gig drives. The caveat is that after
you already have two drives in your machine you'd probably need to spend
around $100-$150 for a PCI card that will allow up to 4 more IDE drives. The
card I got will also allow these drives to be configured as a RAID if
desired. I haven't done that part yet, though I hope to soon.

Todd