gd buy?

http://www.computerwarehouse.co.uk/detail/2120084/0/-/-/1/-/-/-/1165001736227174


is this a good buy for my new imac as an external hard drive?

anyone?

please any one?

I really love Western Digital external drives. I am not sure of the price since I live in the USA but it's a good drive and has both FireWire and USB2.

Edit, Just used my currency converter, that is around $190 US Dollars. We can get that drive here at New Egg for $165.00. I hope that helps a bit.

Yes it looks good. It's funny that it says for speed go with Firewire 400 and for Compatibility go with USB 2.0. USB2.0 is actually about 20% faster than Firewire 400 (unless you have other devices on the same USB port).

I have never bought anything from tat site BTW, so you might want to check its reputation before ordering.

Don't go by numbers when compairing USB2 and Firewire 400. FW in real use is much faster. I have done speed tests over and over on many systems and Firewire was always way faster. USB2 has a lot of overhead and slows way down on sustained transfers of large files. On my friends Dual G5 we made a large archive of all his music. With USB 2 it took 10 minutes to transfer to the HDD and with FW 400 it was 5 minutes. I was shocked at the difference so came home and tried it on all my systems here and got the basic same results. Used a Tripple interface drive at my friends house and a 160GB WD USB2/FW400 drive here.

ok thanks. i will check there reputation