external hd?

i found this good deal on an external drive since i am looking to upgrade the 60gig drive that came with my macbook. can anyone tell me if this is a good choice?

http://www.compusa.com/products/pro...732&Pn=Personal_Storage_3100_100GB_Hard_Drive

Looks good to me. Format it to HFS+ if you plan on using it only on the Mac, FAT32 if you'd like to share it with a Windows computer.

surfwax95 said:

Looks good to me. Format it to HFS+ if you plan on using it only on the Mac, FAT32 if you'd like to share it with a Windows computer.

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thank you!

Im a fan of building my own externals, i just put together a 300GB USB2/Firewire 400 drive for about 160.

IronMac said:

Im a fan of building my own externals, i just put together a 300GB USB2/Firewire 400 drive for about 160.

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how would one go about doing that? buy an internal drive and buy a housing for it?

brianj08 said:

how would one go about doing that? buy an internal drive and buy a housing for it?

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exactly! then use disk utility to format.

I got Lacie 60gb for 60 bucks off ebay a lttle while back. It is like 1/2in wider and 1 1/2in longer than a full-size ipod and just about as thick. It is so small I can actually port it around with my computer. Then of course I have my 30gb ipod that I use for storage too, and then my 2gb flash drive.

So I would look for one a little smaller on ebay or something. Never had a problem with my lacie.