Which external hard-drive?

[applemax]

I'm looking to buy an external hard drive that looks nice and is over 250GB and is ideally under £400 ($800). Also, should be Mac friendly and probably FireWire 800 compatible. Any advice? Thanks.

 

[Mac-Addict]

Western Digital Mybook Pro is 250gb and has Firewire 800. It costs £79.99 so its well in your price range! Or you can try the 500gb version for £114. Western Digital are great hard drive manufacturers and their products are very stylish, I am planning on getting 350gb Mybook USB version.

 

[shipdestroyer]

My Book is a good choice. We have a dozen at my work--they're rock solid and look pretty.

 

[coil]

I have a number of LaCie drives that I am happy with as well as externals from other world computing, which usually has good deals.

 

[SMM]

There are so many good choices available. There is a great deal of promotional pricing as well. I like the LaCie drives, but I could not tell you that there are not other triple-interface options just as good. There have been (on average - and by my guess), at least one thread on this subject, every week, for a couple years. You might want to tap into this abundance of knowledge by searching. You can also visit CDW, Mac/PC Warehouse, Tiger Direct, PC Connection, Frys, etc. They will have many choices for you to evaluate and with current pricing.

 

[showtime]

I'm looking to buy an external hard drive that looks nice and is over 250GB and is ideally under £400 ($800). Also, should be Mac friendly and probably FireWire 800 compatible. Any advice? Thanks.

You can easily get a 500gb western digital mybook for ~$150.

 

[flopticalcube]

You can easily get a 500gb western digital mybook for ~$150.

Yeah but look for the Pro version, the others are FW400.

 

[shipdestroyer]

They frequently go on sale. Check sale aggregator sites like dealnews.