I could use some help.... which one do you think would work best, don't look at the price.. Ill try to find a used one.
Just as a follow up to this post, I bought a 500 GB Silver My Book. Great little hard drive.
- My Book for Mac with TB of storage
- These are ALL of the MyBook's that are Mac Ready
- NewEgg Main Site
- Search for Harddrives on New Egg
- SmartDisk Wireless Cross Fire
Just as a follow up to this post, I bought a 500 GB Silver My Book. Great little hard drive.
western dig My book
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ReplyDeleteI've had two separate western digital drives fail, losing thousands of images, my entire mp3 collection, and a lot of irreplaceable stuff. I learned two valuable lessons - backup - and don't buy WD drives.
ReplyDeleteSeagates have always treated me well. I currently use two seagate 500GB drives with RAID mirroring.
This is my preferred external setup: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEFW912AL2/
with two seagate drives:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148135
For a total of under $300 for 500GB mirrored storage. This would be suitable for either a timemachine backup drive, or just attached storage for work. With the mirrored RAID you always have two copies of everything, just in case.
If you're using it simply as external storage, vs. time machine, you might want to upgrade the whole kit to a SATA system, which brings the cost up by $50-100, but will get you about %30 faster throughput over firewire 800, especially if you're working with a lot of large files.
Awesome post, I think i have followed your guidelines on mine but I'm still a noob. Thanks for the tips!
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