[DM-MUG] Backup Software info

[Victoria L. Herring]

>Each time SD! has failed for me I found that the drive (or 
>bridge--the chipset that an external drive plugs into) needed to 
>have the firmware updated. I never buy from a vendor that I cannot 
>track for software/firmware udpates and support. Two faves: LaCie 
>and OWC.

That's good to know.  It was backing up to a LaCie...I haven't had 
time yet but there is a Firmware to be applied, so I'll try that. 
The problem of course is that data on THAT drive should be put in 
safe place just in case update of firmware goes bad -- but the stuff 
on that drive is too big to move somewhere else [which is why I got 
the thing - 500G] and yet I don't want to risk it being lost...Thus, 
the conundrum.  I may risk it anyway, but not time yet.
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