Which External Hard Drive should I buy/Do you suggest?

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Yuhuh, i got hold of a MAXTOR firewire case, and stuck a 3.5" 250GB hdd in it. Total price: £88 as apposed to the £160 or so at cwonline.co.uk (dead link removed)
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Exactly what I did except I chose a 2.5" device and enclosure for 2 reasons:

- More portable with my 12" PB
- If my intenal drive should die I have a direct replacement

I run it off of FireWire, works lovely and I use it as my backup drive.

I spent about £50 for an aluminium enclosure with 60gig 5400RPM WD Hard disk; not bad really! Came with all the cables and is self powered.

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Please try the search button at the top, this was discussed in depth a few weeks ago and I'm sure you'll find it helpful.
 
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Same, bought a nice HDD enclosure and just toss in some HDD's when needed. Much cheaper and more flexable.
 
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If you really want to get fancy you can go with something like this:

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Thats a 4 drive enclosure ($189), 2 200Gb drives ($80 each on E-bay) and 2 250Gb drives ($95 each on E-Bay). It's set up in two RAID arrays for Music.
 
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Recomendation: external HD for macbook

Hi,

I'm new to this forum, some what new(i had been reading the post a lot time, but just never sign up)... I just got my new macbook and i need some recommendation for external HD, 120GB build in is not enough for music and movie. SO..... please help me out here@~~~

Thanks

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do you want it to be portable like your macbook or a non-portable version?
 
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suggestion on external HD

I just bought a new macbook, and looking to buy a external HD to back up my files, also with leopard coming out, the time machine going to require more HD space.. Any suggestion? btw...im kinda new to mac, so still not really sure about all the formating stuff...

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go on newegg, buy a nice firewire 400 enclosure 3.5", 40-50$.

try to get one that has a sata internal connection. and just buy a 500gb hd for 130$

under 180$ you can have something that would cost over 200$

or, if u just wanna get something...look at the Western Digital MyBooks.

they come in usb only, usb/fw400, and i think there is one that is fw800.

usb will be cheapest, but id spend the extra 15$ and get the one with fw400.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...0&Description=western+digital+My+Book&x=0&y=0
theres a link, just get what u want size wise.
 
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I have the MyBook pro and it is a great piece of work. I also was looking at the LaCie d2 quadra because of the quad interface and the 500GB size. I would suggest those 2. Whatever you decide you should definately get one that has Firewire on it.
 
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im going to be purchasing a few of the 500gb mybook pros soon.

just waiting for price to come down a bit more, or for when i fill externals i have up.
 
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I'm looking for a portable one that isn't too heavy and is kind of on the smaller size. I was reading some about the rugged lacie ones, but I'm not really digging the orange. Anyone have any recommendations? Firewire would probably be the best bet. Thanks in advance.
 
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I believe western digital makes one that is called the passport. It is bus powered to but it is USB. I found 5 on newegg.com and they are the Firelite by Smartdisk and Aegis Portable by Apricorn. Neither of which company I have heard.
 
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go on newegg, buy a nice firewire 400 enclosure 3.5", 40-50$.

try to get one that has a sata internal connection. and just buy a 500gb hd for 130$

under 180$ you can have something that would cost over 200$

or, if u just wanna get something...look at the Western Digital MyBooks.

they come in usb only, usb/fw400, and i think there is one that is fw800.

usb will be cheapest, but id spend the extra 15$ and get the one with fw400.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...0&Description=western+digital+My+Book&x=0&y=0
theres a link, just get what u want size wise.

Thank you~ the suggestions that you gave, do i have to do any formating at all? and if you dont might, can you explain to me a little bit about why the whole formating and compitibility problem with mac?

thx again
 
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Hey there :)

Id also recommend the "Mybook" series as a good choice!

As for formatting, you have nothing to worry about, just plug it in, and your good to go ^_^

If you want more flexibility AND you are only going to be using your external HDD on Mac OSX then feel free to format it to the HFS+ file system. (Formatting a hard drive to HFS+ on MacOSX can be found using google :) )

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External Harddrives

I just got a Lacie External Drive (Firewire) 160gb. I was just wondering what the rest of you all have regarding External Drives.
 

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a 3.5" 160GB Maxtor that requires a/c power.
fully formatted in FAT32, mainly used for backups, connected very infrequently.

a 2.5" 120GB Maxtor
fully formatted FAT32, mainly used for music and photo backups. travels with me to work every day.

a 2.5" 80GB Western Digital that came out of my dead 17" HP pavillion
fully formatted HFS+, soley for extra space and some backups on the macbook.



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a 3.5" 200gb Maxtor IDE inside a Macally 3.5" 100ac usb/fw enclosure.

a 3.5" 200gb Maxtor IDE inside a Macally 5.25 500BC usb/fw.

i would never buy another brand enclosure, these are wonderful, and worth the average price they cost!

2.5" 60gb IDE Laptop HD, inside cheap ebay usb case :)
 
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