External Hard Drive?

[nibuoy]

I need a new external hard drive to back up my 15 inch mbp.
My old 80gb one just ran out 🙁

What's the best 1 tb hard drive with firewire 800?
I'm thinking about this one: http://www.amazon.com/LaCie-FireWire800-FireWire400-External-301881U/dp/B003187T98/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293939997&sr=8-1
Anyone had any experience with it?

Thanks in advance

Oh, and is it possible to use eSata with the 15 inch mbp?

 

[GGJstudios]

OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro™

 

[Dr McKay]

iOmega Minimax External Desktop Hard-drive.

http://go.iomega.com/en/products/external-hard-drive-desktop/ultramax-minimax/minimax800/?partner=4735

 

[dlholmes3]

Password Protection/Encryption of External Hard Drive

I have a work laptop running windows and a personal MacBook Pro that I've been attempting to make it an easy transition to work off of when I'm not in the office and traveling. I recently purchased a 1.5TB Seagate external hard drive and want to use it to store both work (Windows Laptop) and personal (Macbook) files. For those that are using TrueCrypt, is it usual for it to take 2+ days to encrypt your external hard drive? Note that I had 200GB of data on it before I started the process.

Also.. I started on windows, meaning that I downloaded truecrypt on my windows and am encrypting my external hard drive. In order to use with my Macbook will I have to go through the same process again? Or will it be as simple as plugging it into my Mac and typing in the password I set when I set it up on my Windows-based laptop.

Thank you all for your help.

 

[nibuoy]

Ok I think I'll go with the OWC one.
Also, should I use Time Machine, or some other backup program?
If I wanted to use the HDD to both backup my computer and store media files, do I need to partition it?

 

[GGJstudios]

Ok I think I'll go with the OWC one.
Also, should I use Time Machine, or some other backup program?
If I wanted to use the HDD to both backup my computer and store media files, do I need to partition it?

Time Machine is fine. I prefer Carbon Copy Cloner, but either will work, as will others. You can certainly partition it to keep your backups separate from your other files.