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| Author: | shouldgetoutmore [ Sat Oct 27, 2012 2:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Recommendations for external hard drive for mac |
Hi all anyone got any recommendations for an external hard drive for a mac? don't like the 2 year life span the Apple Time Capsule seems to have. Any recommendations, views appreciated. Cheers. |
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| Author: | Laser [ Sat Oct 27, 2012 4:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: recommendations for external hard drive for mac |
Isn't ex drive an ex drive you just have to format for mac OS. Not NTFS of Fat er Googe Edit: http://www.ehow.com/how_2063795_format- ... ac-os.html How to format a drive for Mac OS X http://youtu.be/LN5my4Lrd-4 Looks as if Journaled for mac For drive I like Western Digital not had a problem. The great WD Vs Seagate |
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| Author: | andydd [ Sat Oct 27, 2012 4:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: recommendations for external hard drive for mac |
Can you just use any drive formatting correctly ?. Maplin always has a cheap selection of external 500GB/1TB drives..assuming they can be used. Andy |
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| Author: | 8600keith [ Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: recommendations for external hard drive for mac |
Avoid the apple time capsule, absolute crap. had 2 before i changed to a 1tb wd 'my book' for mac - excellent piece of kit, easy to use etc and its fully compatible with time machine. |
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| Author: | Festa [ Sun Oct 28, 2012 12:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: recommendations for external hard drive for mac |
Just bought a imac myself and have been wondering the same, was going to buy a WD Passport as have one on my windows laptop and been great. anyone know if its possible to have one external drive that works on both a mac and windows machine so can save and transfer without needing two separate external drives ? |
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| Author: | Mooh [ Sun Oct 28, 2012 12:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: recommendations for external hard drive for mac |
There are several add ins that let a mac read NTFS formatted drives, I think google actually support one of them. However you usually need to disable this if you want to reboot into boot camp. Any USB disc should be fine. I personally use an AirPort Extreme base station with a 2tb disc plugged into it, which means everything can access it and my macs will run time machine on it. |
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| Author: | shouldgetoutmore [ Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: recommendations for external hard drive for mac |
Just picked up a WD my book for mac 1tb. It's just for time machine back ups. Thanks for your input guys. |
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| Author: | shouldgetoutmore [ Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: recommendations for external hard drive for mac |
Next question. Is it best to turn FileVault off when using time machine? |
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