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Want a TB external drive w/FW 800.

I can also vouch for the Rosewill/Samsung setup as originally suggest by Cave Man. I have 4 of the Samsung drives and all have worked quite well for me. The Rosewill enclosure has been nice as well, though I have had issues with FW using Vista 64 for writing (not the enclosure/drives fault, works fine in OS X, reads in Vista 64 are good, writing is ridiculously slow).

I also have a WD Passport Studio which works well (again FW 800 issues in Vista 64 though; USB is as expected). I currently have it formatted with a FAT 32 partition for Scratch which I can convert to HFS+ or NTFS if needed, another Fat32 partition for portable media storage, a third partition formatted as NTFS for Vista specific writing storage and a fourth partition for HFS+.

Also, Windows XP 32 can't understand GUID partiton tables. If you're using Vista you shouldn't have a problem, but thought it worth mentioning just in case since a lot of people still use XP.
 
Cave Man said:
I'd go with this Rosewill aluminum enclosure (includes FW800, FW800 and USB2 cables) and this Samsung drive. That'll cost you $155 before shipping..
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Anyone know where I can buy this enclosure in the UK? I found plenty of reviews on google but so far I've not found a distributor.

I'd rather not order from the USA and then get stung with import duty as has happened to me recently when my wife ordered some Ugg boots from Oz...

Thanks,
Craig.
 
Well I got the WD Studio, got it at a price I couldn't pass up. As long as my format is set to GUID - I will be able to boot from it - correct? For Intel-based Mac's shouldn't I always be selecting that option?

I'm just confused by some of the formatting options, unsure if I'm doing it right or not.

Also - once I do my initial backup, is this a drive that can sit on my network and be backed up wirelessly?
 
I love my 1TB MyBook Studio. I don't use the WD software (I use SuperDuper for backups), just delete it if you want to reclaim all the space. FW800 is great for connecting to laptops and I use the eSATA port on my G5 - although this has been a little unstable occasionally.
 
msw123307 said:
Well I got the WD Studio, got it at a price I couldn't pass up. As long as my format is set to GUID - I will be able to boot from it - correct? For Intel-based Mac's shouldn't I always be selecting that option?

I'm just confused by some of the formatting options, unsure if I'm doing it right or not.

Also - once I do my initial backup, is this a drive that can sit on my network and be backed up wirelessly?
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First off, yes drive used with Intel based Macs require a GUID partition table map to be bootable.

As far as the network, that depends on your type of network. If you can hook USB drives up, yes. Otherwise no since this is not a drive with an ethernet interface- USB, eSATA, FW400 and FW800 are available.
 
LukeG said:
I love my 1TB MyBook Studio. I don't use the WD software (I use SuperDuper for backups), just delete it if you want to reclaim all the space. FW800 is great for connecting to laptops and I use the eSATA port on my G5 - although this has been a little unstable occasionally.
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I just installed the manager so that the capacity light would work.

Did you bother to install the update for Leopard (If you are running Leopard)

Accessing the drive is quick, my main issue right now is even if my display is asleep (Imac HD itself still running) my WD drive lights are still doing something every 5 minutes. I have it set up to run with Time Machine but that's only every hour and having the drive lights cycle all the time is pretty annoying. Do you have any experience with this?
 
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