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Dropbox and 1Password

Do you have any suggestions as to what drive to look for. Also since there are only two usb ports on the laptop, I would try to find an external drive that would hookup to the firewire port. If I cannot find one like that,  does it matter if I use a hub and connect it thru the hub. How’s the sailing going?

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I do recommend a couple of drives. If you want to save some money, the Free Agent drive by Seagate is excellent. Available at Best Buy for around $100. If you’d like to spend a little more money and have firewire 800 as well as USB then my preffered drive is the Lacie Quadra. It’s more expensive (usually around $179 for a 1 Terabyte) but worth the cost in my opinion.


At all cost, avoid the Western Digital MyBook drives. They are inexpensive and I have many clients who’ve experienced failures. Ultimately every mechanical drive fails but I’ve got much more faith in the two above an any others.

Using a USB hub shouldn’t matter as long as it’s USB 2.0 which most are at this point.

The sailing is coming along fantastic. I’m actually up at the club whenever I have a chance so I’m right next door to you quite often. Just not this week! We have our next race next Saturday at 1pm so look out for me. I’m sail #5230.
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