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External Hard drive Help

shoremen00 said:
Hi everyone I've had my new MacBook Pro for quite a while now and I'm starting to accumulate a large movie collection on the laptop. So I figured I should get an external HDD to put these large movie files on. I don't know much about external HDD so I'm wondering if this one is sufficient/good quality.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western...skuId=9258885&st=external harddrive&cp=1&lp=2
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I just bought this extremely small and lightweight 640Gb portable hard drive from Amazon. I bought my first external drive 5 years ago and quickly figured out that the need to plug it in with its own power adapter was a disadvantage. I would highly recommend that you limit your choice to a drive that is small, lightweight, and USB powered. You won't regret it.
 
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gwsat said:
I just bought this extremely small and lightweight 640Gb portable hard drive from Amazon. I bought my first external drive 5 years ago and quickly figured out that the need to plug it in with its own power adapter was a disadvantage. I would highly recommend that you limit your choice to a drive that is small, lightweight, and USB powered. You won't regret it.
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The White one (the one I really want out of the colour choises) only comes in the 320 gb :(
I will keep that one in mind though as I am also looking for a portable external hardrive, thanks :)
 
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I've got a 1TB G-Tech drive connected via USB to my Airport Extreme. Works great as a network drive as well as a Time Machine Backup. Great drive. Stay away from the "G-Drive Q" though - They had a run of bad controller boards last year - I had a bad one and sent it back to G-Tech; they sent me brand new drive about a week later!

I'm also thinking about relocating my iTunes and iPhoto libraries there (and keeping a smaller library on my MBP) - does anyone have experience using a networked drive for iTunes? For use on multiple computers?
 
gwsat said:
I just bought this extremely small and lightweight 640Gb portable hard drive from Amazon. I bought my first external drive 5 years ago and quickly figured out that the need to plug it in with its own power adapter was a disadvantage. I would highly recommend that you limit your choice to a drive that is small, lightweight, and USB powered. You won't regret it.
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You had any problems with it so far? Some of the reviews are rather negative.
I wish there were more 1tb portable external hard drives, if anyone knows any good ones send me a link
 
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randomerratum said:
does anyone have experience using a networked drive for iTunes? For use on multiple computers?
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I keep my M4V movies on a network drive. Streaming them to my Apple TV has often been iffy but I had no trouble getting iTunes to copy each one individually to the Apple TV's hard drive. I copied my M4V movie files onto the new little Toshiba drive that I just bought (linked to in Post #3). I run Windows 7 in a Fusion virtual machine on my MBP. I bought the Toshiba drive mostly to do Windows backups. I have, however, now copied my M4V movie files onto it, too, and have been trying to setup my PS3 as a Windows Media Center Extender, so far without success.
 
Apple-NoEscape said:
You had any problems with it so far? Some of the reviews are rather negative.
I wish there were more 1tb portable external hard drives, if anyone knows any good ones send me a link
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I pay close attention to the reviews of products that I am interested in buying from Amazon. Actually, the reviews of the Toshiba drive I bought there gave me a fairly high degree of confidence. The average rating was 4 out of 5 Stars and there were 303 votes, more than 75% of which gave the drive 4 or 5 stars. Also, negative reviews are many times the result of frustration born of ignorance, rather than the result of something being genuinely wrong with the product. Having said that, maybe this one will turn out to be a dog but I have given it hard use for several days and it has been reliable and run remarkably coolly and quietly. Better yet, the price was right. :)
 
gwsat said:
I pay close attention to the reviews of products that I am interested in buying from Amazon. Actually, the reviews of the Toshiba drive I bought there gave me a fairly high degree of confidence. The average rating was 4 out of 5 Stars and there were 303 votes, more than 75% of which gave the drive 4 or 5 stars. Also, negative reviews are many times the result of frustration born of ignorance, rather than the result of something being genuinely wrong with the product. Having said that, maybe this one will turn out to be a dog but I have given it hard use for several days and it has been reliable and run remarkably coolly and quietly. Better yet, the price was right. :)
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I will probably end up buying it, all the other portable ones don't seem very good/have a terrible rating, I will wait untill I get the new mbp pro before I order it though, hopefully it will be good, thanks for the help :D

ps if yours happens to explode or something between now and the Mbp release give us a heads up :p
 
Apple-NoEscape said:
I will probably end up buying it, all the other portable ones don't seem very good/have a terrible rating, I will wait untill I get the new mbp pro before I order it though, hopefully it will be good, thanks for the help :D

ps if yours happens to explode or something between now and the Mbp release give us a heads up :p
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Absolutely! I'll try to remember to post an interim report about my continuing experience with the Toshiba portable drive here in a couple of week. In the meantime, just assume that no news is good news. Of course, i am hoping that it just keeps on keeping on for the foreseeable future.
 
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