External Harddrives
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- sherman
Anyone recommend an external harddrive that would work with a mac?
I know there are lots - i just want the one you guys use.
because i love you
- kyl30
porche(lacie) 250gb
I always wanted a porche. Now I gotz one.
- horton0
go with a Lacie/ firewire.
- sherman0
Lacie it is
- GreedoLives0
i'll third that emotion
(Lacie Firewire)
- sherman0
Now where to get one in Canada?
- horton0
isn't there a Westworld in victoria?
- danthon0
You can get lacie at compusmart. Make sure it is 7200 rpm with 8mb cache. They tend to throw super cheap drives in those enclosures...
- sherman0
Thanks fellas
- sherman0
$256.27 (including shipping & taxes) Canadian for a 160gb Lacie firewire drive.
- GreedoLives0
well worth it son.
- otapnam0
i got a 200GB maxtor external for $100 US at staples
sad thing is, it was cheaper at staples than with my employee discount.. (i actually intern at Maxtor.. har har )
- mbr0
I've got two Maxtor drives and both are great.
The new ones are wonderful - scheduled backups and they take up barely any of the hard drive (they come with a small version of Dantz Retrospec, which is worth something by itself).
I've got a 200 and 300 gig drives.
Another good thing is that they are USB 2.0 AND Firewire compatible (I've got one machine with USB 1 and Firewire, the other with USB 2 - so it's great). I believe Lacie and others are one or the other.
- ribit0
You can get Lacie drives with USB2, Firewire 400, Firewire 800 and Extreme (even faster), and ExtremeII I think (still faster), and various combinations of all of these (or not)in various drives... plus RAID units up to 2 Terabytes.. its confusing.
- arterie0
yeah, LaCie, have 4 of em, . . . http://www.lacie.com/
- mbr0
ah, so you can, that's new
- enjine0
dunno bout macs, but i just buy the biggest hard drive out there and put it in an enclosure that can support it.
go for the 500 gigger hitachi!!
- alkanenine0
i have a lacie fa porsche model, but its usb :(
otherwise its a great drive. get firewire.