[Maced] External HD

[Quentin Hall]

Dear John


Over the years, I've not had much luck with Western Digital (even the  
ones Apple purchased).  I tend to use Seagate drives (5 year warranty  
- but not when they are placed inside "some other brand of hard drive  
case" when the warranty drops to 1 year - maybe 2).   The USB 2.0  
seems to be the rage at OfficeWorks for the PC but we can run FireWire  
400 and in many cases FireWire 800 (you'll probably want to reformat  
it Mac style as it tends to be some Windows NT format).

So that means a "all in one box with the lot" - something like a La  
Cie - a bit more expensive but at least you have USB 2 and the  
FireWires (and often eSATA).  More flexible and FireWire 800 if you  
have lots to back up in a day is certainly fast. Very fast.

However, if time isn't an issue USB-2 drives work.  I'm currently  
having issues with a person who has a Maxtor (which is a Seagate  
company) drive which is USB -2.  It keeps saying "this volume is  
locked" - even after I reformatted it.  Something wrong there!


Regards


Q


On 01/03/2008, at 7:15 AM, John Akhurst wrote:

> I am currently looking at getting an external hard drive to do my  
> Time Machine backups. Officeworks have a Western Digital 1TB  
> Essentials 3.5 Hard Drive USB 2.0 drive for $299. Has anyone had any  
> experience with these or suggest an alternative. Had a little scare  
> this morning. Thought I had lost a bit of data, so I want to get  
> this up and running asap.
>
> Thanks
> John
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