Topic: Best External Hard Drive?

[noahbickart]

A great way to do off site backup is to allow your music loving (yet less nerdy) friends have clones of your drives.

I've got two friends each with a 3tb clone of my music drive. Every time I go over there I bring new files.

I enjoy having off site backup, they enjoy having my complete music collection.

[shownomarcy]

I've been meaning for years to implement some sort of file sync like Brian outlined so well in the thread he linked above.  But I'm still just manually syncing the three (or more) copies across drives via copy/paste and comparing file sizes to confirm.  It is a bit of a hassle to find differneces if/when they occur, but not enough to push me to make the effort to sync-ware yet.

I realized its very easy to synch directories with Total Commander (by filename, date(!) etc...) to compare my hdd to external hdd to make sure be the same. This is very useful in case of hundreds of folders and files. Also easy to copy the results from folders to folders automatically!

Anybody else using it?

Commands/Synchronize directories
http://www.ghisler.com/screenshots/en/08.html