Recommendations for USB External Drive

[Ade Lewis]

Hi,

I have recently purchased Western Digital USB hard drive to use as a back up disk in case one of the mac goes down. I have a Intel MacBook and a G5 PPC. The MacBook will back up from this disc fine but the G5 won't.

After reading up on the internet I have found out that this is a well known problem between the Western Digital Drives and the G5.

Can anyone recommend an external usb drive that they know to work with the G5 ? one that it can be used as a start up disc.

Thanks in advance.

 

[chscag]

I believe you would want an external drive with a firewire connection to backup your G5. The Intel machines do fine with USB or firewire.

Regards.

 

[harryb2448]

Yep as chscag advises PowerPC's require firewire external drives to boot as USB2 is not fast enough. Also needed to be formatted in Apple Partition Map.

Do not think the brand of drive will make any difference to that.

 

[Ade Lewis]

Thanks very much for the info. I can't take the WD external drive back unfortunately now as I have formatted it so it looks like a visit to ebay !

 

[harryb2448]

Ade that is what happens with this computer age ~ we all learn as we go. Check the forums and/or ask prior to purchase. Always find information at OWC Find the latest Performance Upgrades, Firewire and USB Hard Drives, SATA, Memory, Laptop Battery, and more at OWC handy as they handle most Apple Mac items.

 

[fhunter]

I use the disk2go PURE 2gb. I havent had any problems. Good little USB drive