External drive suggestion?
Both my iMacs have firewire 400. All my external drives are firewire. I currently have a 500GB and 250GB on one mac and a 500GB on the second mac.
I've been looking at a "Western Digital WD Elements 2 TB USB 2.0" at Amazon for $119. Very cheap. It only has USB 2.0. Most reviews are good, 13 indicate drive is very slow and had failed after 2 or 3 months. I currently own "OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro" drives. 3 year warrenty. Very good and reliable drives. The problem is a 2GB drive is about twice as much. http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MAU4S7H20T32/
I guess my gut says get the better one. Losing 2GB of data is worth a lot of money. But I'm low on cash and that $119 sounds pretty nice. I want to use this new drive for TM for my two computers. I may also store other backed up stuff there too.
What do you all think?
baltwo wrote:
I roll my own and this the latest combo that I have:
Macally GS350SUAB Hi-Speed eSATA/1394A/1394B/USB2.0 Storage Enclosure for 3.5inch SATA HDD
with an Hitachi 1 TB Deskstar SATA 7200 RPM 32 MB Cache Internal Hard Drive HD31000 IDK/7K
What do you think of the OWC drives. I really like them. They do offer "roll your own" empty enclosures. But I priced it all out it it seems cheaper to just get the drive/enclosure from them.
Drive and enclosure: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MAU4S7S15T32/
Enclosure: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEFW934FWU2K/
Thanks
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