Sorry for the off-topic post, but I know there are quite a few Mac users
around here and am hoping one of you might know the answer to this.

My daughter has a Macbook and needs an inexpensive external disk for
use as a Time Machine backup device. I bought her a bog-standard 320GB
Freecom USB2.0 bus-powered 2.5" disk. It seemed to work fine for
several months, then Time Machine said it had failed. So I
reinitialised it using Windows diskpart and all seemed well again. Then
a month or so later Time Machine said it had failed once more. OK,
perhaps the disk is just faulty - except that after I reinitialise, it
seems to work perfectly under Windows.

So: does Time Machine do something unusual that makes a standard disk
unsuitable?

Does anyone have a recommendation for an external disk that works
reliably with Time Machine? Bear in mind I'm looking for something
affordable - no exotic stuff please!

Thanks.


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