External Hard Drives for Mountain Lion?

[macuser1232]

Hey I'm looking for an external hard drive that has 2.0 USB(can have other ports too) that is under 100 dollars that has a capacity of 500GB. What hard drives should I look at? Any good western digitals? Also, I can have a portable or desktop hard drive. Doesn't matter.

Thanks

 

[ideal.dreams]

I picked up a one TB Toshiba hard drive about two years ago for about $99. Not sure if the price has gone down since then or if it's the same or higher.

 

[macuser1232]

I picked up a one TB Toshiba hard drive about two years ago for about $99. Not sure if the price has gone down since then or if it's the same or higher.

I think I could get one for cheaper. Thanks anyway though.

 

[macuser1232]

I think I am going to go with the Western Digital My Passport Studio.

 

[Gala]

I just got a TB WD Passport Mac formatted today. Going through my initial backup now. It's small, sturdy, and silver/black so it looks appealing too next to my Macbook. The guy at the store said I can not only have TM back it up but I can drag and drop items into a separate folder to use it as an HDD too.

I plan to store 250 mb of movies in the passport and then have TC backup routinely also.

 

[Vandefilm]

I bought a 1 TB harddrive 2 years agoo for 70 euro's (90 dollars?). I have it formatted in two partitions, one for TM and one for storage. It's not the fastest thing on earth, but i don't mind waiting an extra minute. I would be strange if those things costs more nowadays.

 

[macuser1232]

I just got a TB WD Passport Mac formatted today. Going through my initial backup now. It's small, sturdy, and silver/black so it looks appealing too next to my Macbook. The guy at the store said I can not only have TM back it up but I can drag and drop items into a separate folder to use it as an HDD too.

I plan to store 250 mb of movies in the passport and then have TC backup routinely also.

How come you have to format it? Doesn't it already come in the Mac hard drive format?

 

[Gala]

How come you have to format it? Doesn't it already come in the Mac hard drive format?

I should have phrased it differently. I was looking into getting the WD Passport on Amazon and decided to check them out at Best Buy while I was there yesterday. There was a "WD Passport" & then in a different section there was a "WD Passport For Mac". From what I understand the one for Mac is set up/formatted so that it works out of the box with Time Machine & it seems that you can also use it as side storage.

After my first Time Machine Backup last night I now have, within Passport, a folder (Backups) with a subfolder (Macbook Pro) with a dated backup file in it. I also made my own folder next to the Backups one (Movies). I put 200GB of movies in that folder and iTunes seems to be reading them from the Passport fine right now.