I don't have a terabyte sized one, but I do have a 500 gigabyte
Western Digital My Book drive that I quite like, and I have heard
good things in general about the My Book series. They come in
three flavors:
USB only,
USB, Firewire 400, eSATA
USB Firewire 400, Firewire 800.
Newegg has the 1TB
Newer macs (I think all intel macs and possibly also PPC
macs with USB 2) WILL boot USB drives.
To supplement my earlier post, I've found that the My Book
drives I touted come in a fourth flavor, the My Book Studio
with USB, Firewire 400 and 800, and eSATA, in 1TB and 2TB
versions. Also, they
Also, they say that their drives use 30% less
energy than standard drives and they do not need a fan.
That is about as future-proof as you can get.
I wonder about the fan thing. I've noticed some user reviews indicating
that some of these drives get REAL hot in heavy use. One reviewer
Anyone have a favorite brand or model of this kind of drive ?
A good magazine article review ?
Besides terabyte, I am looking for FireWire 400 USB 2 at a minimum,
external reliable.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Phil
I've been using a Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo 1.5TB via USB for a while.
Under XP the system took a while until the drive was ready. Under Vista
it mounts faster. I haven't tried it with a Mac. No complaints (pretty
quiet), nothing special except that it's big - I just use it to archive
I build my own external drive solutions. But just a note, especially
applicable if you've got terabyte sizes to worry about: eSata (and
1394b) are MUCH faster than USB2 or 1394a. As things stand today, I'm
implementing eSata for all newer drives, and you should too.
Of course, if portability
: Phil Marchetti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CGUYS] External Terabyte hard drives - recommendations please
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Date: Friday, June 20, 2008, 8:11 AM
Anyone have a favorite brand or model of this kind of drive ?
A good magazine article review ?
Besides terabyte, I am
Yes, if you are using a Mac, FireWire USB is a good idea (IMO) as I
don't think that USB will boot a Mac, but you may at some time want to
connect it to a machine which has USB but not FireWire.
FireWire will boot a Mac, but it's my understanding that some FireWire
drives will not boot a
