exernal hardrive

[cowman007]

I there
Im looking out for a cheap external hardrive 160 gigs so i can use it in Time Machine in Leopard with my 17inch iMac. Im living in Canada and Im having trouble finding an OSX compatible hardrive.

Any ideas?

 

[JDN]

Freecom are compatible. You will probably have to re-format it into HFS+ but it will work and they are reasonably priced. Western Digital aren't very pricey either, and seem to be popular on this forum at least.

 

[amoda]

Hey,

You should check out CostCo. I just bought a great external HD from Costco for 210$ tax included. It's Maxtor OneTouch 3, 320gb with firewire 400 and is mac compatible. There were other ones varying in size from 120-500gb and all of them were mac compatible. I don't recommend futureshop since they really mark up the prices but they do have a larger selection. I saw the same HD's in both stores and futureshop was 50-120$ more expensive!!

Check this out it's 320gb but for 150$ you won't find a better deal. It's mac compatible but the bad part is that it doesn't have firewire so it'll be a tad slow. This price also seems to be pretty fair.

 

[nplima]

Western Digital MyBook drives are neat. their power supply doesn't get hot at all (unlike el-cheapo brands), the case is quite attractive and it's really silent because of the sleep mode feature. Other drives I know switch off only when the computer is off (or in standby). since the WD has "sleep mode" built in, it goes to sleep after a few minutes of inactivity and comes back to life when you need it.
If you go for the higher end models they even come in white like your iMac