Yes, of course the most current responses are at the end of the thread but when you weed out the hard drive comments not related specifically to compatibility and reliability there are only relatively recent responses on the last three pages - I was hoping to get a little bit larger "data base" to gauge user satisfaction with current external desktop hard drives. Thanks for your response. Right now I am leaning to a Seagate 2TB, formatted for Mac and with Firewire 800 connectivity - at a cost of about $200. Thx.