Jericho: Backup Drive

Where was this Portable Hard Drive when I thought I lost everything on my G4?

Ya know, with the amount of time I spent putting music back on the iMac after we bought it, this thing could have saved me days of time. I'm not kidding. I bet I spent at least 48 hours, sitting in front of the iMac, loading CD after CD.

Steph is buying me an iPod for our anniversary - a video iPod (more details on that later). With the amount of time it takes for me to make an iPod capable copy of one of our DVDs - this thing might just become essential! At about 400MB per movie, this could store our entire DVD collection and then some!

That's just the music and movies. Steph wanted to kill me over one file we nearly lost. She has built and rebuilt and rebuilt and maintained her Christmas card list for several years now. It not only allows her to print out labels, but it's also a handy address list. When the G4 went bye-bye, she thought she lost that list. Luckily, I had made a (laborious!) back up to the (very slow) G3 when we upgraded the OS. I was able to recover the file. This drive would have let me do in minutes what took hours.

I think this might just make it to my Amazon list for Christmas this year!