Nick Jackson

I’ve got too much data. 460GB isn’t enough to store it all, I need a bigger hard disk.

Bring on the 2TB external drive!

I just though I’d take a photo of some of my bits of tech, partly because it’s shiny and partly because I wanted to try some methods of diffusing the flash on my camera. For the record, a sheet of white paper in front of the flash - whilst working well - results in a blinded photographer.

In this photo you can see my laptop, my iPhone (With headphones), my Mighty Mouse, my backup drive (320GB, for Time Machine), and the USB cable for my camera. Not shown is the USB hub which ties it all together (It’s hidden down the cable hole), but I’m sure you’ve seen those before.

I’ve gone out today and bought myself (Amongst some bits of stationery) a new USB hub, and a new external hard disk (320GB for £49.99 - can’t complain).

The reasoning behind this is simple - I need a new USB hub to connect the mountain of devices I have to my laptop without running out of ports, power or both. I opted for a nice 4-port USB 2.0 hub (Powered) in order to be able to connect and juice up my various bits and pieces via a single port. Since I’ve still got a mini 1.0 hub, I reckon that 9 ports should be adequate for most purposes. If not then I’ll invest in a 7-way hub - but that’s getting silly.

On the hard disk front, I wanted it to use as a backup device - but no mere rsync backup device! No dodgy 3rd-party backup device! No, this was going to be a Time Machine backup device!

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