{"id":1278,"date":"2009-08-05T12:07:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T03:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-08-05\/1278"},"modified":"2009-08-05T12:07:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T03:07:42","slug":"other-world-computing-on-the-go-pro-external-disk-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-08-05\/1278","title":{"rendered":"<i>Other World Computing<\/i> On-The-Go Pro External Disk Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1278'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>My laptop, which I'm using for photo processing during <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2009-07-28\/1268\" class='quiet'>my month in\nOhio<\/a>, found its disk full after <span class='nobr'>a few<\/span> days of photos of <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2009-08-01\/1274\" class='quiet'>Anthony's\ncousins<\/a>. The 80-gig disk needed <span class='nobr'>a quick<\/span> upgrade.<\/p>\n\n<p>On Monday I ordered an &#8220;<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/item\/Other%20World%20Computing\/MS8U7500GB16\/\"\nclass='quiet'>On-The-Go Pro 500GB 7200RPM Triple Interface FW800\/FW400\/USB\n2.0 Storage Solution<\/a>&#8221; from <a href=\"http:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/\"\nclass='quiet'>Other World Computing<\/a>, and it arrived Tuesday. <span class='nobr'>It's a small<\/span> external housing with Firewire and USB interfaces, and holds the same\nkind of disk as the laptop; <span class='nobr'>I got<\/span> the 500 gig version, with the faster 7200\nRPM disk, which will help with Lightroom (which benefits greatly from\nfaster disk)..<\/p>\n\n<p>I plugged it in, copied my whole disk with <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.bombich.com\/software\/ccc.html\" class='quiet'>Carbon Copy Cloner<\/a>\n(donationware, like my Lightroom plugins, so <span class='nobr'>I sent<\/span> $20 in thanks), then\nswapped the disks so that the new 500-gig disk was in the laptop.<\/p>\n\n<p>After booting, checking the disk-free space, angels sung: &#8220;<i>396\ngiiiiiig freeeeeeeeeee<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>The On-The-Go external disk housing is great.... it doesn't even require\n<span class='nobr'>a separate<\/span> power plug, since it's powered over the Firewire cable. I'll use\nit with the old 80-gig disk as <span class='nobr'>a photo<\/span>-backup disk.<\/p>\n\n<p>I've spent all day copying data around, and can now get back to\nprocessing photos. Hopefully tomorrow <span class='nobr'>I can<\/span> start to process some of the\nphotos from the last couple of days, and get back to posting on the\nblog...<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My laptop, which I'm using for photo processing during my month in Ohio, found its disk full after a few days of photos of Anthony's cousins. The 80-gig disk needed a quick upgrade.<\/p> <p>On Monday I ordered an \"On-The-Go Pro 500GB 7200RPM Triple Interface FW800\/FW400\/USB 2.0 Storage Solution\" from Other World Computing, and it arrived Tuesday. It's a small external housing with Firewire and USB interfaces, and holds the same kind of disk as the laptop; I got the 500 gig version, with the faster 7200 RPM disk, which will help with Lightroom (which benefits greatly from faster disk)..<\/p> <p>I [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}