I bought one of these and am wicked stoked with it
Pocket sized. USB powered. 500gb. What more could you ask.
Thanks to greasebat for shipping this to me in Australia too.
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| Author: | Hank [ Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Portable external hard drive help |
Okay, I always feel good about asking for help here. I need a cheap mini sized external hard drive. I'm running OS X 10.5, any suggestions? Looking for at least 250 GBs. |
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| Author: | legoomba [ Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Portable external hard drive help |
How much space do you need? Would a thumb drive be adequate? |
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| Author: | Hank [ Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Portable external hard drive help |
legoomba wrote: How much space do you need? Would a thumb drive be adequate? I edited my original post. Looking for at least 250 GBs. |
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| Author: | wing_clipper [ Fri Jun 26, 2009 7:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Portable external hard drive help |
g-tech minis all the way! essentially made for and definitely approved by mac users. you get what you pay for, these are great drives but will cost a bit more than something from best buy. |
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| Author: | andy [ Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Portable external hard drive help |
I've got a couple made by Maxtor (now owned by Seagate, I think), and they are outstanding. One is 750 GB, and the other one (more portable) is 500 GB, I think. Excellent hard shells and great performance. No idea if they're Mac friendly. I don't own any Apple products. |
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| Author: | gforce [ Sat Jun 27, 2009 3:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Portable external hard drive help |
99% of external HDs are Mac compatible...I've got a WesternDigital that's very good...if you want something small Toshiba do a brilliant and small HD that goes up to 500GB |
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| Author: | GERMS [ Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Portable external hard drive help |
I bought one of these and am wicked stoked with it Pocket sized. USB powered. 500gb. What more could you ask. Thanks to greasebat for shipping this to me in Australia too. |
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| Author: | Lixx [ Sat Jun 27, 2009 5:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Portable external hard drive help |
I use a Fantom External Hard Drive. Small, fan cooled (and extremely quiet), you can get a 500 GB one for around $110 @ newegg.com. I definitely recommend getting one with firewire connections. Always found USB too slow in transferring files from externals. What kind of Mac are you running? |
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| Author: | legoomba [ Sat Jun 27, 2009 7:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Portable external hard drive help |
Lixx wrote: ...I definitely recommend getting one with firewire connections. Always found USB too slow in transferring files from externals... I agree. I have an external seagate free agent and i love it with my firewire 800, however it's not terribly portable. The seagate Go is very nice and they have a firewire option on that, but it's going to run you a little more than a straight up USB drive. |
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| Author: | geotaro [ Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Portable external hard drive help |
At Buy.com, you can get a Simple Drive 1.0 TB for $99. That's about the best deal I could find. I have three of these, and have had no problems with them after using them about a year for music and photo backup. They are Mac and PC compatible. |
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| Author: | Hank [ Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Portable external hard drive help |
Thanks everyone!!! Got some great ideas and am leaning towards a maxtor or western digital. The little pocket ones they have are EXACTLY what I need. As I said, SB is the place to go for help with anything. 
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| Author: | DeJesus [ Sat Jun 27, 2009 2:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Portable external hard drive help |
go for the western digital, i have a mybook, and it works great |
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| Author: | ---NT--- [ Sat Jun 27, 2009 3:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Portable external hard drive help |
You should probably just get a bunch of these: http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/tran ... iles-brin/ |
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| Author: | CCPfan [ Sun Jun 28, 2009 4:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Portable external hard drive help |
Actually... New Egg has a slimline 1 TB drive on sale now for $89 and free shipping. They're in NJ so those of us on the east coast usually get next-day delivery IF you order before noon the previous day. Format is FAT32 so you might need to format it (easy) Original price = $150 |
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| Author: | atease [ Sun Jun 28, 2009 7:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Portable external hard drive help |
western digital is cool, but if you have a macbook (the first black version is what i have) it didnt have enough power to keep the drive running on usb. took a lot of experimenting to figure out that was the problem. sounds stupid, but it might save you time at a genius bar and/or the store you're getting it from. i ended up getting a firewire drive mentioned earlier as being better. i think it's an io |
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