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<blockquote data-quote="dgortze380" data-source="post: 697873" data-attributes="member: 61228"><p>Any external with the correct connection (USB, Firewire... whatever you have on your machine) should work. You'll probably have to use disk utility to reformat to HFS+ as most externals are shipped NTFS.</p><p></p><p>Personally I've had a Seagate and a Maxtor external and a WesternDigital internal. The Seagate was trash, never mounted correctly, constantly ended up with a corrupt file system and had to reformat. Maxtor and WD haven't given me any trouble at all.</p><p></p><p>Always keep two backups. No matter what brand you pick up, don't rely on the external thinking you'll never have a problem with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dgortze380, post: 697873, member: 61228"] Any external with the correct connection (USB, Firewire... whatever you have on your machine) should work. You'll probably have to use disk utility to reformat to HFS+ as most externals are shipped NTFS. Personally I've had a Seagate and a Maxtor external and a WesternDigital internal. The Seagate was trash, never mounted correctly, constantly ended up with a corrupt file system and had to reformat. Maxtor and WD haven't given me any trouble at all. Always keep two backups. No matter what brand you pick up, don't rely on the external thinking you'll never have a problem with it. [/QUOTE]
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