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Nooby External HD Question

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Afro1989

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I am completely new to external hard drives, and I've searched this forum for a long time and it's only making my life more complicated. 😛

All I need it an external hard drive to store photos. It's not too complicated. Is LaCie the way to go or is this Iomega good for a first external HD?
 
Afro1989 said:
I am completely new to external hard drives, and I've searched this forum for a long time and it's only making my life more complicated. 😛

All I need it an external hard drive to store photos. It's not too complicated. Is LaCie the way to go or is this Iomega good for a first external HD?
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Me id go with LaCie or possibly WD mybook ( combo )
 
Afro1989 said:
I am completely new to external hard drives, and I've searched this forum for a long time and it's only making my life more complicated. 😛

All I need it an external hard drive to store photos. It's not too complicated. Is LaCie the way to go or is this Iomega good for a first external HD?
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If you have any decommissioned but reliable internal IDE or SATA drives you can buy a USB enclosure for $30 and make your own external USB drive.
 
Afro1989 said:
You're being sacrastic?
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Why, do you know me? 🙂 No. When I entered the Mac world (about two weeks ago) I took one of my 250GB Seagate drives from my Windows machine, put it in a $22 USB hard drive enclosure from computergeeks.com, and now have a perfectly functioning external drive to use with Time Machine. Works great. And I still have three years left on my Seagate warranty.
 
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