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Number   :  10825
Date     :  2005-03-18
Author   :  John Zeman
Subject  :  Re: Determining good external drive to use with XXCOPY?
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--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "ursusmusicus"  wrote:
> 
> I've been using XXCOPY for over a year now to make backups of files 
> and directories to CDRW discs, using an Iomega external CDRW 
> 52x24x52 drive. The drive has suddenly become flakey and refuses to 
> format new discs, so I'm comtemplating buying a new external drive. 
> The question is, which one? I want it to work with XXCOPY.
> 
> This isn't a trivial question. The CDRW drive that is built into my 
> computer won't work correctly (once anything is written to a disc, 
> XP considers it locked and forever sealed; I've scoured the internet 
> and found many people who have had the same experience with XP. My 
> solution was to get the Iomega CDRW drive, which has worked fine 
> until now.)
> 
> I called Iomega tech support and asked about their new REV drives, 
> which are essentially external hard drives that hold up to 35 gigs. 
> I asked whether I could copy files to a REV drive using the DOS COPY 
> command at a command prompt; the tech support guy said, "it would 
> probably crash the drive." I highly doubt that; the guy has 
> probably never used a command prompt in his life.
> 
> But this points at a very important question, and I'd like to ask 
> the members of this forum for recommendations. What external drives 
> have you used successfully with XXCOPY? I want to continue to use 
> it for creating user-defined backup batch scripts, and I don't want 
> to purchase an external drive that XXCOPY can't communicate with.
> 
> Many thanks,
> --Tom
> P.S. I'm using a Pentium 4 with XP sp.1


I've been using a Western Digital 160 GB external hard drive now for close to 2 years and have had no ill effects with it at all via standard XP command line scripts.

I bought mine in a local Sam's Club for $180 (US) but the last time I looked they had dropped in price, plus there's larger drives available now.

I can also tell you that I'm pretty much sold on external hard drives, at least for the time being. I only use CDs or DVDs as supplemental backups now, everything else goes to the external hard drive. Or for short term backups (such as when traveling), to a 1 GB CompactFlash card.

John



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