Mac Computers
I am about to replace my widows PC with a Mac computer. I want to buy a free standing hard drive to transfer my files and then use it for backup. Can anyone recommend a good product around 200 GB. Thank you.
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I recently bought a Freecom model from svp. It seems to do the job fine. I'm not sure if the bundled automatic data backup software is available for a mac, but I dare say this is a common problem with all the drives out there. There's nothing to stop you manually dragging and dropping the files you wish to copy. http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=1465 Regards, Duncan |
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Mac system (OS 10.x) automatically has all the software you need for such operations. |
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Anyway, I bought a Lacie 250 GB drive for £80 from Watford Electronics. They also use them at work, and they seem to work very well indeed. |
Thank you Duncan, I've followed the link and it looks fine to me.
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Thank you Daedal, I will do that but I still want a free standing drive for backups. It should be faster than DVDs. I do have airport and ethernet as part of the package.
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Regards, John. |
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On reflection, I think you are making a false assumption if you think you need the external drive to transfer your existing files. (a) it is not necessary as the mac will copy across all or anything there is on the PC by networking the 2 together; easy as the mac software detects what there is at the other end of the cable or the airport; at worst you may have to put everything into 1 folder on the PC and assign a pass-code to it (b) for long term back-up it will be better to have the external HD formatted for mac (or rather just not formatted for PC). This is because the mac operating system includes a very powerful database in its structure, so all files are stored with a wealth of information that enables you to find them later if you (or nowadays the computer itself) has been less than intelligent as to where they should be stored. But the HD can be bought shortly after the box, not needed concurrently as you still have the PC as back-up. 2 of us now are recommending LaCie as reliable. If you go for a cheapo, there are a certain number of know failures around and the suppliers rely on you having a guarantee (=insurance policy) to get a replacement. Also when a really mac compatible drive is about to fail (ie has a fault in 1 of several billion sectors), the mac OS locks you out of messing things things up any further. At that stage, copying to a working mac is still possible by, as it were, sucking from the mac end using the UNIX machine system. That also applies to the internal drive. |
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