Hi Colin, You'll probably get other suggestions, but if I'm buying an external HD for storing work data, where I care most about reliability, then I'll buy a G-Technology Drive: http://www.g-technology.com/
I purchased a 3 Terabyte G-Drive (SATA with both USB and FireWire connectors) just before Christmas for just under $300 (about £190). There are certainly cheaper solutions. And I know that Gordon recommended the Promise Smartstor DS4600 system as a RAID disk system (which is industrial strength -- not something I'd use as a single user who is not working with servers and storage.) Sarah recommended the Western Digital My Passport Essential drive (look for her review from last August). That's a portable drive. I've been a bit leery of the Western Digital portable MyPassport drives since reading a lot of bad reviews in Fall 2010 (I bought one from the Apple Store, found a ton of failure reports around that time, and returned it without using. The salesperson who exchanged it for a G-Drive admitted that he had bought one of the WD MyPassport drives a couple of months earlier and had already had to send it back twice to the manufacturer.) Not sure why there was such a plummet in quality, because the early models reviewed well. I think the larger Western Digital My Book Studio drives are still well regarded. I'd go to a site like Newegg.com, or Tiger Direct, and read the reviews and ratings by customers. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Feb 14, 2012, at 8:37 AM, Red.Falcon wrote: > Hi all! > I'm looking at getting a external HD and was wondering which make's people > think are good matches with the Mac! > I'm new to buying them so have no idea which are good or to avoid! > TIA > Colin > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
