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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1632016"><p>As the others have said, any external drive will do. Get one about twice as big as your internal, so about 500Go should do well. The faster interface will help, so if you have Firewire, get that one, or if you have USB3, get one of those. USB2 will do, but it's much slower at moving data. Firewire is more expensive than USB, sadly, but USB can be found relatively inexpensively. Don't worry about format, you'll need to repartition/reformat it for OS X anyway and ANY drive will do. I prefer WD drives myself, but get whatever you can. Batteries do start to lose life, particularly if deep cycled many times. You can try turning down brighness on the screen, turning off Bluetooth unless you need it, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1632016"] As the others have said, any external drive will do. Get one about twice as big as your internal, so about 500Go should do well. The faster interface will help, so if you have Firewire, get that one, or if you have USB3, get one of those. USB2 will do, but it's much slower at moving data. Firewire is more expensive than USB, sadly, but USB can be found relatively inexpensively. Don't worry about format, you'll need to repartition/reformat it for OS X anyway and ANY drive will do. I prefer WD drives myself, but get whatever you can. Batteries do start to lose life, particularly if deep cycled many times. You can try turning down brighness on the screen, turning off Bluetooth unless you need it, etc. [/QUOTE]
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