Is this a good external Hard drive?

[zomgitztony]

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/453978/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-USB-20-Hard/
It's only $75 and I was wondering if it's actually worth getting.

 

[richard.mac]

its fine if you are happy with USB, Firewire 400 & 800 are faster, but external drives with them will be more expensive. USB 3.0 is new, but is also more expensive and currently no Macs have it.

it will come formatted as either NTFS or FAT so format to HFS+ using Disk Utility http://www.switchingtomac.com/tutorials/how-to-format-a-drive-or-partition-with-the-hfs-file-system/

 

[smirk]

Yep, what he said. It'll work great for you.

 

[Velin]

If you are going to be moving a lot of data, get a drive w/ Firewire 800, esp. if you are backing up or transferring work or business-related data.

If this is a time machine dump, then the drive will be fine.

 

[miles01110]

Uh, that drive only has a 1-year limited warranty. What a joke.

Avoid.