1 Terabyte of Time Travel

I couldn't resist it when I saw it at Machines yesterday.

1 Terabyte of External Hard Disk space, with Firewire 800, 400, USB 2.0 and eSATA connectivity. Plus compatibility with Mac's Time Machine. I had to have it. Plus I was really running out of space on my internal 500GB HDD. Even Jack Sparrow needs extra booty chests and a larger hull, no?

The Western Digital My Book Studio Edition boasts a transfer rate of 800Mb/s with Firewire 800 (as compared to 480Mb/s on USB2.0) and comes with its own auto backup & restore software. I've tried both and the Mac's Time Machine is way cooler.

I've partitioned the aircraft carrier to two equal portions: one for backup and the other for storage (not very clever nomenclature, I'm sorry) of videos and music. I've rerouted Miro and iTunes to read from the external drive and it works like magic.

Time Machine took the entire night to collate my data, back up the entire system, and start the updating process for hourly (x1/7), weekly (x4/52) and 1 month's archiving.