My Passport Edge for Mac

[macuser1232]

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.

Thanks

[Jspring86]

Originally Posted by macuser1232

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.

Thanks

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!

[macuser1232]

Originally Posted by Jspring86

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.

[Weaselboy]

Looks like Newegg has it. Newegg is reliable.

[Ifti]

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

[adonis3k]

do these actually operate at USB 3.0 speeds and not 2.0? I need one around 2 or 3TB but not sure what to buy. Currently have a 1TB Seagate with Firewire but want something abit quicker.

[Ifti]

They should do, yes.
I just picked up an external caddy and stuck the HDD from my MBP into it. Certainly get USB speeds through that!
I haven't tested the passport drives but they should be noticably nippier.

[macuser1232]

Originally Posted by Ifti

They should do, yes.
I just picked up an external caddy and stuck the HDD from my MBP into it. Certainly get USB speeds through that!
I haven't tested the passport drives but they should be noticably nippier.

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).

[adonis3k]

Originally Posted by Ifti

They should do, yes.
I just picked up an external caddy and stuck the HDD from my MBP into it. Certainly get USB speeds through that!
I haven't tested the passport drives but they should be noticably nippier.

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.

[Ifti]

Originally Posted by macuser1232

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).

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.

Originally Posted by adonis3k

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......

[adonis3k]

Originally Posted by Ifti

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

[Ifti]

Originally Posted by adonis3k

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

[macuser1232]

Originally Posted by Ifti

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?

[Ifti]

Originally Posted by macuser1232

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.

[macuser1232]

Originally Posted by Ifti

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.

[Ifti]

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-G...2044801&sr=8-8

[macuser1232]

Well turns out the hard drives I have are only 40gb. I want to sell them but my only option is ebay probably.