For those with a Fry's Electronics nearby, I found an in-store special on a Seagate 500G external drive yesterday that seems a decent deal: 7200rpm drive with a 16Mbyte cache in a nicely designed, quiet fan cooled enclosure (comes with a stand for vertical standalone use or can be stacked with others horizontally), includes two FireWire ports and a USB 2.0 port. $240 complete.
At that price, it's cheaper than any of the 500G bare drives and a decent enclosure that I've found locally, is competitive with buying online but less hassle. I bought one, formatted it and loaded it up with 240G of data last night. Formatted capacity (Mac OS X Extended & Journaled) came out to 466G. It performed quickly and flawlessly. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
