OWC intros 750GB, 1TB Neptune external drives

Both the $170 750GB drive and the $230 1TB drive feature a 7,200-rpm drive mechanism and up to 32MB data buffer.

Bus-powered hard drives and older Mac laptopsMacworld Lab tests a plethora of older Macs to see how they handle bus-powered USB portable hard drives.
Evolving storage market behind MacBook Air price cutLast week’s price cut for the SSD-equipped MacBook Air reflects changes in the solid-state drive market that have allowed manufacturers to boost capacity while cutting cost.

Bus-powered hard drives and older Mac laptops
Macworld Lab tests a plethora of older Macs to see how they handle bus-powered USB portable hard drives.
Review: My Passport Studio portable hard drive
The My Passport Studio is a portable hard drive that’s bus powered—it doesn’t include a power adapter. The drive ships in a Mac-friendly format, and works with Leopard’s built-in disk back up utility, Time Machine.
TimeMachineEditor 1.3
If you’ve ever wanted to change Time Machine’s schedule, Time Software's TimeMachineEditor lets you do just that. You can tweak the interval so that Time Machine backs up every, say, four hours, or you can choose to have Time Machine back up once a day, once a week, or once a month.
Review: Little Big Disk Quadra 500GB portable hard drive
LaCie’s Little Big Disk Quadra is a high capacity, portable storage device that can be powered off of a FireWire connection. It will cost you considerably more than a similar capacity desktop drive, but its RAID configuration helps keep the drive competitive with desktop drives in terms of performance.
SmartBackup 2.2
There are many good backup utilities out there, and the number of choices is growing. What makes FreeRideCoding'sSmartBackup 2.2.4 unique is that it lets you define files to be backed up using saved Spotlight searches.

In case of emergency
In a summer full of natural disasters how prepared are you (and your Mac) for unanticipated emergencies?
Bugs & Fixes: Time Machine holdups
Ted Landau’s Time Machine backups began sticking at the “Preparing…” stage of starting a backup. So he did some digging to find out what was causing the problem.
Time Machine tips and troubleshooting
Some people will be able to set up and turn on Time Machine with a single click. But you may need to do some manual configuration to get it to work the way you want. You should also be aware of some quirks in Time Machine’s operation, particularly when restoring data.
Is Time Machine all you need?
Although any backup is better than no backup at all, Time Machine may not protect your data to the extent or in the way that you need. A few significant weaknesses offset its impressive strengths.
Excerpt: Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard
The inclusion of Time Machine as part of Mac OS X 10.5 shows the importance of good backups for every Mac user. And while backing up and restoring files may be easier than before, you’re still going to need a place to store all that data. In this excerpt from his Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard ebook, Joe Kissell tells you what to consider when shopping for a backup drive to hold all that Time Machine-saved data.