External Harddrive for Macs?

idunnoimas

i was just wondering if you could buy external hard drives for mac laptops. Sata, Ide, whatever. Also anything else that is necessary if you get a external hard drive.

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Answer
Most Macs have both a USB and Firewire, and there are a few external hard drives that can connect with Firewire, but most external hard drives use the USB.

An external hard drive is generally a hard drive that has a power supply that requires connection to a wall socket.

A portable hard drive is generally a hard drive that gets its power from the USB port or the Firewire port, so it does not need a connection to the wall socket.

Typical minimum price for either is about $70, any lower and they are on clearance sale.

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These two companies are the largest manufacturers of hard drives and they both make external hard drives and portable hard drives.

Western Digital
Seagate and its subsidiary Maxtor

Other manufacturers of external and portable hard drives include Iomega, SimpleTech, Verbatim.

These are sold by Best Buy, Frys, Office Max, Office Depot, Staples, Target, Wal-Mart.

Go to http://www.frys.com

At the top, click the tab "Hard Drives/Memory"

At the side, click category "Hard Drives"

You will now have a page-full of hard drives advertised

At the side, click category "External Hard Drives"

At the side, click category "Firewire" or "USB" or "USB-Firewire"

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If you have a regular internal hard drive you want to make into an external hard drive you can buy a "hard drive enclosure" which will have a USB adapter built-in but will be IDE only or SATA only, or you can buy a plain USB-to-hard drive adapter which supports IDE or SATA.

Go to http://www.frys.com

At the top, find the search box and type

drive enclosure

Select :

Entire Site

and click GO

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For USB-to-SATA docking stations :

Go to http://www.frys.com

At the top, find the search box and type

Drive docking station

Select :

Entire site

and click GO
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external/portable hard drive help?

Logan

What's a good portable hard drive that's below $500. I know it's a little vague but I'm not an expert with computer hardware. Also would it be a bad idea to run my games from them? Would that shorten it's lifespan anymore than it would if I just used it for storage.

Answer
I have a Western Digital My Book. I really love it. It's a 1TB it cost about 124 bucks. That was from Dell. You can probably get it cheaper at Office Depot, or Best Buy.

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