External Hard Drive

[JimmyDThing]

I'm planning on taking advantage of the Time Machine when Leopard comes out. I'm going to have to partition the hard drive and set aside some HFS+ formatted space solely for the TM...

My question is... how much? I haven't yet bought the external drive because I'm going to get the AirPort, so I want to use the USB 2.0 port feature so I can put my media on it and be accessible by both Mac and PC.

How big an external drive do you think I should get? I was thinking 500.. It'll be some movies (but not an unreasonable amount... but mostly music, pictures, etc). And how much of the hard drive do you think I should set aside for the TM?

 

[mrjaja]

I'm thinking of doing that as well, having one partition for Time Machine and one for files like movies files for video editing and so on.

I think it would vary on your computer's hard drive capacity. My First Mac say that an external hard drive should be 150% bigger than your computer's built in hard drive.

I'm hoping to get a MacBook soon with a 160GB hard drive, so I'm liking the look of this 400GB Freecom Hard Drive for £80 on Amazon.co.uk.

Hope that helps

 

[JimmyDThing]

I'm hoping to get a MacBook soon with a 160GB hard drive, so I'm liking the look of this 400GB Freecom Hard Drive for £80 on Amazon.co.uk.

Hope that helps

It definitely does help, thanks.

If you're looking for 400GB... you can get Western Digital My Books for the equivalent of about £65... and you can get a 500GB for like less than £5 more on zipzoomfly.com

But I don't know if they ship outside US... or if you're attached to the Freecom name... but figured I'd say something in case you wanted to lower the price.

Thanks again!