Does have an idea of when the price of hard drives will drop down again?

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Johnny

I was planning on purchasing an external terabyte hard drive and saw that the price dramatically increased within a fairly short time. I've read that there was a flood where the drives are manufactured and they weren't able to produce as many as they originally planned, so the prices were raised. I'm guessing that in early 2012 the supply will meet the demand and the price range will return to its Summer 2011 range. Does anyone know any more about this? Thanks!

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Experts predict that the floods will affect drive prices until 2013, but practically you should see consumer drive prices down to about where they were before the floods by mid 2012. I'd say wait at least until March before getting a large drive, though it's up to you if you need the storage now or later.

Can I format an old hard drive with my Mac without losing everything?

I own a Seagate Freeagent external hard drive. I once used it with my PC, but now I have a Mac, so I can't write anything new onto it. I'd like to reformat so that I can start backing up again, but what I've been reading says that I can't do that without losing everything already on the drive. I can't backup onto my Mac, either, because there's not enough room. So, what are my options here?

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No, formatting a drive erases everything on it.

I haven't tried this myself because I don't own a Mac but there seems to be some work-around solutions that will allow your Mac to use an external Windows NTFS format drive. However, attempting this is entirely at your own risk.
http://www.yourdailymac.net/2011/06/how-to-read-and-write-ntfs-harddrives-under-mac-os-x/
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/

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