Ready the Time Flux Capacitor!
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007I’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!