I’m looking for a 40-100GB USB mobile drive.  Similar to a thumb drive but with an entire harddrive for data backup purposes when do some PC work on the side.  Does anyone have any recommendations on this item?

BTW - Price not really important

Thanks,

-m

I never even knew these existed. Check out eBay for these.
I found this 40GB one and it doesnt seem that big.
Link

You should also check these portable hard drives out.
http://www.flash-memory-store.com/100gb-external-usb-hard-drives.html

Yeah, they are awesome for backing up data on the run—I do a ton of PC / Networking work on the side, and these are ideal for backing up PC’s before doing anything to them just to protect yourself.

They have software for full backups, but I just pull important data, I can reinstall an OS in 25 mins.

Thanks for the link, that’s a great price on that one—Currently I’m looking at this one:

http://www.cmsproducts.com/detail.aspx?ID=660

But I figured there was something cheaper out there for me.

-m

[quote author=“munkyxtc”]
They have software for full backups, but I just pull important data, I can reinstall an OS in 25 mins.
-m

Very true. OS’s can always be found in a disk, while other data cannot. Just curious what type of networking jobs do you do that require so much space?

Edit- The HITACHI looks pretty good and its from a trustable company and holds 100gb. Its 300$ :think: .

The backups aren’t really for when I’m doing a networking job since it only require cabling to be run or hardware unrelated to the computers; unless I’m working on a server in which case I have a tape backup system I can install. The mobile backups are more for when I’m working on a machine that requires more than a simple install of some software.  Or is currently heavily populated with virus and/or spyware, I’ll move important data over to the backup disk…as we all know removing the bugs can sometime cause computers to go down depending on the severity.

-m

Yeah you should see all my friends’s computers. I say to them: Woah man you got a lot of spyware!.
and they say to me: What in the world is that?!
Haha they’re IE’s could not be loaded with more Spyware search bars :lol: