I am migrating my storage over from my PC and I have 900 gigs or so of data on my PC.. so I was thinking of getting a 1 tb.. but now that i actually did that math, i may want to think of a 1.5 just to have room to expand (damnit) though i mean my mbp (17" 320 gb) does have room to store some stuff as well.
Anyway.. reading a bunch of comments here a bunch of people have said buying the drive and the enclosure separately is the way to go. But I have had not much luck finding an enclosure with firewire 800 (if i decide to go that route and I mean.. it'd be cool to actually use that port for something, plus would help to futureproof it as i do want to get into video at some point) for less than $100. There are some 40-50 dollar ish ones with eSATA and i understand I can use if I throw some kinda adapter in my multicard slot (or whatever it's called).. can someone elaborate on what i need to buy to be able to do that and also whether it's a worthwhile thing to do? (would be nice to actually use that thing, too, lol)
I might also decide that if I'm just storing movies and music and photos on there that usb 2.0 is fine (though again.. futureproof!)
Anyway.. reading a bunch of comments here a bunch of people have said buying the drive and the enclosure separately is the way to go. But I have had not much luck finding an enclosure with firewire 800 (if i decide to go that route and I mean.. it'd be cool to actually use that port for something, plus would help to futureproof it as i do want to get into video at some point) for less than $100. There are some 40-50 dollar ish ones with eSATA and i understand I can use if I throw some kinda adapter in my multicard slot (or whatever it's called).. can someone elaborate on what i need to buy to be able to do that and also whether it's a worthwhile thing to do? (would be nice to actually use that thing, too, lol)
I might also decide that if I'm just storing movies and music and photos on there that usb 2.0 is fine (though again.. futureproof!)