External Drive suggestions

[BilltheCat]

I want to add an external drive for my iMac but dont know much about them for macs. Who's products for mac do you all like for drives?

Thanks in advance!:D

[zap2]

I have a LaCie 3 interface drive...has FW 400, FW 800 and USB 2.0, its really a good drive. I'd recomend it...I also have a Maxtor USB 2.0 and 1.1...I had erase it when I first got it(even thought there wasn't anything on it) to allow me to put things on it, but it was on sale, so I don't care. Works fine, but I like the LaCie drive more, if you can get FW 400 and USB 2.0(FW 800 is nice, but few computer have it)

FW 400 is nice for your computer( a Mac) but if you need to using on a PC, not all have FW 400, so USB 2.0 is nice to make sure it works with most computers.

[BilltheCat]

for the imac thanks! I will look at that model!

[cuestakid]

the western digital mybook series are awesome-i have a 500GB triple interface drive i got from new egg

here is a link to all of their drives at newegg

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2000150414%2050001306&bop=And&SrchInDesc=mybook&Page=1

[dailo]

The APRICORN enclosure is pretty well known and from all the benchmarks it's one of the top performers, but they are a little pricier. I think getting an enclosure and then getting a SEAGATE drive will be your best bet because it will be cheaper and you'll be able to take advantage of the 5 year warranty.

[iLoveMyMBP]

I was in the same spot your in....luckly i had an extra harddrive laying around...i went to my local electronics store and bought a harddrive enclosure which works flawlessly and is a million times cheeper then buying a external harddrive....u can always get a cheep harddrive on ebay!

[-Alan-]

I'm curious to know if you can transfer files from a window's machine to a Mac using one of these external drives. Will the Mac try to reformat the drive instead of reading it?

[mergemedia]

+1 for the seagate

[iLoveMyMBP]

There is a app in OSX called Migrate...explore that i'm sure you'll find an answer

[Duff-Man]

Duff-Man says....I would recommend searching the forum - there really must be countless threads asking this very same thing...it comes up at least every week....oh yeah!

[The Stig]

the most important thing I'd say it to get a a drive with firewire. Firewire works SO MUCH better than USB. Get a firewire one. That is one of the biggest things.

The Stig