Mac hard drive

[Karen]

What is recommended? I don't wanna spend loads, just something to back everything up on really in case of a future total Mac meltdown like I've had in the past...

 

[Lam7r]

I just used an old hard drive i had lying around (used to empty lots of travel agents when the closed down and the cctv systems had harddrives in that i saved from the bin lol) and put it into an enclosure that you can get online for about £30. Worked a treat for me and saved me buying a hardrive built into an enclosure as they were about £150 when i was looking.

Infact ask me nicely and i will have a look if i have anymore drives left and pop you one in the post So long as 80gig will be enough as i think thats what they were.

P.S i might not have one as had a garage clean out few weeks back. Can have a look if you want they all you would have to do is format it and buy an enclosure

 

[Karen]

Thanks v much lol but sounds a bit complicated for me, I just want something I can just buy, plug in and use (ideally)!

 

[Revels]

Even get the feeling you should have stuck with PCs Karen? lol

 

[UncleGrumpy]

If you want it nice and simple Karen, try this

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/105774/rb/20869843469

250Gb, USB2.0, plug it in, wait 5 seconds, pops up on the desktop - simple. Cheap as well.

 

[Lam7r]

http://www.pcworld.co.uk:80/martprd...egory_oid=-24880&fm=8&sm=0&tm=1&show_all=true

Something along those lines will do you. When you go and get one tho make sure its got "firewire" as well as USB as will make things a lot easier and should just plug into your mac and work! Macs are so much simplier than PC's when it comes down to it. 90% of stuff just works!

 

[Karen]

Even get the feeling you should have stuck with PCs Karen? lol

lol I have other plans now as well as the back up thing, am thinking of getting rid of all my cd's...

 

[Karen]

^^^ Ta for the suggestions so far.

 

[CHRIS172CUP]

Get a Lacie drive, the porsche design ones. Yum

 

[Iain C]

i got a toshiba 300gb from pc world.
£79
It took a while to set it up for my mac tho as it was formatted in windblows 2000.
Format it on a pc to xp then format again on osx.
Worth the grief tho

 

[Karen]

i got a toshiba 300gb from pc world.
£79
It took a while to set it up for my mac tho as it was formatted in windblows 2000.
Format it on a pc to xp then format again on osx.
Worth the grief tho

I've not got my laptop working yet so no access to xp - I need something that will work straight away, no hassle, easy, on the Mac.

 

[Rich]

Just grabbed a couple of these for work

http://www.jigsaw24.com/proddesc.asp?ITEM=X276AKA

Going to get one for home aswell I think.

 

[Daz]

Just grabbed a couple of these for work

http://www.jigsaw24.com/proddesc.asp?ITEM=X276AKA

Going to get one for home aswell I think.

Those ones do Ethernet and Bonjour I think, which is cool

 

[Karen]

Just grabbed a couple of these for work

http://www.jigsaw24.com/proddesc.asp?ITEM=X276AKA

Going to get one for home aswell I think.

Bit big for my needs though...

 

[Rich]

You can never have to much storage!

Smaller ones

http://www.jigsaw24.com/cats/storage_media/external_hard_drives_7200rpm.asp

 

[Karen]

You can never have to much storage!

Smaller ones

http://www.jigsaw24.com/cats/storage_media/external_hard_drives_7200rpm.asp

I only have a little Mac though!

Too many choices :S

 

[Rich]

I would go with

http://www.jigsaw24.com/proddesc.asp?ITEM=X908AFA

 

[Karen]

Ta that looks more suitable

 

[Iain C]

I used my work pc to format my drive