Looking to buy a 250GB external hard drive to work with my MacBook 😀. Not too expensive, I just dropped $300 for my iPhone 3G and don't want to ask my dad to pay for the hard drive. Any suggestions?
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Advice buying new external Hard Drive
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huskydsl
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Get a portable Firewire harddrive enclosure and a 5400 rpm ide drive to put in the enclosure. The nice thing about the little firewire drives is that they can be powered by the laptop's firewire port without a separate power adapter. Plus, you can easily take it with you. the 5400 rpm ones are pretty cheap.
Get a portable Firewire harddrive enclosure and a 5400 rpm ide drive to put in the enclosure. The nice thing about the little firewire drives is that they can be powered by the laptop's firewire port without a separate power adapter. Plus, you can easily take it with you. the 5400 rpm ones are pretty cheap.
Funny considering I'm looking for the same. I'm most likely going to get this one. Looks great and I think it meets all your specifications.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/T...accessories/storage&mco=NjUyODQ4&s=topSellers
(sorry don't know how to do the tiny url thing.
Michael
http://store.apple.com/us/product/T...accessories/storage&mco=NjUyODQ4&s=topSellers
(sorry don't know how to do the tiny url thing.
Michael
That has USB transfering. From what I've heard firewire is much faster and one main reason why I recommend the one above.
huskydsl
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the rotten thing about usb is that it wakes computer from sleep whenever you plug in or unplug a device. Firewire doesn't do that.... so, when you close your laptop it won't wake up again when you pull the hard drive usb cable out... i know i know, you think you will just remember to unplug the drive before you put the computer to sleep. Trust me, you will curse a USB portable drive cuz you won't be able to remember. It's just the wrong workflow.