Where can I buy a good portable hard drive?

Princess M

Looking for a portable external hard drive that's small and easy to carry. It would be great if it didn't need a power source, but I know most portable drives simply power via your computer anyway. The problem is that I need it to be compatible with both Mac and PC AND have a firewire interface. I'm looking for something with 300 to 500 GB. I'm not using it to back up my computer. I'm a film major, and I'm constantly using different computers at my school to transfer and edit footage along with my personal Macbook. I've been looking on sites like Newegg all day, and I can't seem to find a good deal that meets all of my requirements.

I kinda need it to meet all of these requirements:
firewire 800 interface (2 ports)
7200 rpm
16 MB cache
Mac and PC compatibility

Answer
The firewire requirement is the tough part. You'll likely have a hard time finding that, as you've discovered, and that won't change because the imminent introduction of USB 3.0 spells the death of firewire.

If you absolutely must have firewire, Google "firewire to usb adapter" and you'll turn up a bunch of those. Then you could buy a USB external drive, of which there are many, and connect to it via the adapter.

Are portable hard drives as fast as internal hard drives?

hard_mike9

im buying a laptop and it would be great if i could just install all my games on a portable hard drive so when i come home i can just plug it up to my baby and play away. if there not i guess ill wait till payday to shell out for a bigger internal hard drive.

Answer
It depends on model you have,some external hdds are faster than hdds in the laptop.

External HDD's - 5400 - 7200rpm
Laptop HDD's - 4200 - 5400 - 7200rpm
Tower Pc HDD'd - 7200 - 10 000 - 15 000rpm

But I don't think you'll be able to install any program,game etc in to your external HDD.
External drives are meant to store data.

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