Hey I was wondering if anyone knows where I can purchase the My Passport Edge for Mac under $100 or an external drive similar to it for under $100. I've already tried ebay and I don't use amazon.
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My Passport Edge for Mac
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You can get it from the WD online store for $94.99 if you use the checkout discount code WDCARES. That is the price before tax, but hopefully it is useful to you if you can't find it anywhere else. I bought one of these to use with my MBA and I really like it, very portable drive. Good luck!
Thanks! Yeah it looks to be the one of the best drives out there if I'm not mistaken.
Isn't the standard My Passport 2TB USB3 drive more cost effective then the My Passport Edge 1TB drive?!
My Passport edge 500GB is around £100
My passport 2TB is around £180
Is go for the 2TB if you can save a little more?
The edge drive does look pretty sleek though
My Passport edge 500GB is around £100
My passport 2TB is around £180
Is go for the 2TB if you can save a little more?
The edge drive does look pretty sleek though
Where is the best place to buy a caddy? Not for Mac. Just a regular HDD for PC. Because, I have about 6 hard drives that I have wiped and I could easily use them as external hard drives for my Mac after formatting them(I think).
haha just realised who you were, been watching your vids for awhile now
macuser1232, you can pick up loads on ebay, just make sure they can take your hard drives you have.
I purchased an 'Icy Box' from Amazon. Cost very little, but I get full USB3 speeds through it. I actually tested the HDD speed before I removed it from my MacBook, then tested the speed in the caddy, and got exactly the same - hence the bottleneck is the actual speed of the drive itself, rather then the interface.
haha just realised who you were, been watching your vids for awhile now
macuser1232, you can pick up loads on ebay, just make sure they can take your hard drives you have.
Lol, cheers
Got a few more coming up this week......
Lol, cheers
Got a few more coming up this week......
Nice one
Im looking at a WD Portable 2TB drive, would a non mac formatted version give me USB 3.0 speeds as they seem to be about £30 cheaper than a mac version
Nice one
Im looking at a WD Portable 2TB drive, would a non mac formatted version give me USB 3.0 speeds as they seem to be about £30 cheaper than a mac version
File transfer speed is based on the connecting interface and the drive speed itself. Go for the cheaper version (as long as its still USB3) and then simply reformat it for MAC once you receive it
File transfer speed is based on the connecting interface and the drive speed itself. Go for the cheaper version (as long as its still USB3) and then simply reformat it for MAC once you receive it
Does my drive have to be USB 3 compatible or just the caddy?
Just the caddy.
Think of USB3 just being the pipe between the drive and your computer - a bigger pipe to allow more data to go through at any one time. The drive will just go as fast as it can to feed or retrieve that data.
Oh ok. So I'm assuming a caddy with usb 3.0 will be more expensive? And I hope they make caddies with both usb 2.0 and 3.0. Where's a good place to buy these? I'll go check out my external hard drives and find out the size of them.
Not that much more expensive, if at all.
This is the one I use, although it was cheaper when I purchased it.....
http://www.amazon.co.uk/IB-231StU3-...Y1TU/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1352044801&sr=8-8
This is the one I use, although it was cheaper when I purchased it.....
http://www.amazon.co.uk/IB-231StU3-...Y1TU/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1352044801&sr=8-8
Well turns out the hard drives I have are only 40gb. I want to sell them but my only option is ebay probably.