Portable Hard Drive for rMBP?

[Mossmann]

Being a film student I need lots of HDD space to edit and store films. I couldn't afford any more than 256 GB of space in my rMBP and need an need a portable external hard drive. (I have 2 WD studio's filled already)

I would love to use thunderbolt, but I can't find any drives that use it. I guess USB 3.0 would be adequate.


What are the best portable hard drives? And can you give links

Thanks

Moss.

 

[miles01110]

The WD MyPassport and Seagate GoFlex are popular options.

Also, search.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1313572/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1179459/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1360950/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1409247/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1359249/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1414359/

 

[tibi08]

I had this problem. I looked everywhere for a thunderbolt disk of around 500Gb, they just aren't in the marketplace yet. I settled for a WD Passport Essentials USB 3 drive.

 

[Mossmann]

I had this problem. I looked everywhere for a thunderbolt disk of around 500Gb, they just aren't in the marketplace yet. I settled for a WD Passport Essentials USB 3 drive.

Probably cost a bomb when they are too, think I will do the same and get a WD.

Whats the write speed of your drive?

cheers

 

[tibi08]

Probably cost a bomb when they are too, think I will do the same and get a WD.

Whats the write speed of your drive?

cheers

Not sure I haven't tested it yet. It says it's 3x the speed of USB 2, which I understand from reviews is in the region of 110 MBps.

 

[timmyak]

I bought the seagate backup 1tb usb3 drive;

I find it to be pretty fast; and am running a windows vm [parallels] right off of the external drive / no lag.

good price and very portable; i also like that the usb connector is detachable so i can either replace it with a thunderbolt connector in the future or i can actually use the connector with any other 2.5in drive.

http://amzn.com/B00829THO6

 

[spdntrxi]

I use 1GB Buffalo Ministation Thunderbolt..

 

[msalman]

I had this problem. I looked everywhere for a thunderbolt disk of around 500Gb, they just aren't in the marketplace yet. I settled for a WD Passport Essentials USB 3 drive.

One could get one of Seagate GoFlex drives and then buy Seagate GoFlex thunderbolt adapter/connector. Replace out of box GoFlex adapter/connector with thunderbolt one and taada you are set

 

[Zeov]

im going for the portable 2TB WD USB 3.0 Drive when i get my first payment from school