At 5:34 AM -0800 11/25/2011, Ben Kernan wrote:
I have to replace the drive in my external drive which will be used for backup purposes. I currently have an 80 gig laCie which dates back to the emac g4 era... It is totally inadequate for use today! What is a little confusing to me is the variety of drives out there... ATA, IDE & SATA. I am not interested in SSD. I want this for home network backup, not time machine... Besides my 700 gig 24" imac, I also need to backup my wife's new 320 gig Macbook Pro.
Are you looking to purchase a bare drive and put it in your existing external box? Or buy a whole new box? If the former, then you need to match the drive's interface to that of the internal one on the box.
Office Despot, today, has a 2 TB external drive for $70... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
