I use a LaCie 2 terabyte firewire/USB drive. And, I think it's a discontinued model - the latest LaCie's are 3 tb or greater. I use firewire because it is the only mode that allows for booting off the external - you can't boot from a USB drive. I have it split into four partitions, 2 for bootable images of both my MacbookAir and iMac, and 2 partitions for data storage. It's more space than I'll ever probably use. I bought if from the local Apple store.
Use disk utility to partition and format it using Mac journaling format if its intended use is strictly for the mac. Otherwise, fat will work for both windows and mac (either fat, or fat32, I can't remember which) On Sep 17, 2013, at 8:37 PM, Agent086b <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for an external drive to backup my Mac. > What should I look for in a drive? I am thinking about a Terabyte or so. > Also how would I format that drive? > Thanks as always for any advice. > Max. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
