Looking to buy a slick external hard drive for Macbook Pro?

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Adia

I'm looking to buy an external hard drive for my macbook pro. I'd like to keep it in the $100 dollar-ish range, and I'd also like it to be reasonably small- I don't want a huge thing because I have limited desk space. It must be mac compatible- some aren't. I've been looking around on the Future Shop and Best Buy websites, but there are an overwhelming amount of them available and I just don't know where to start.

Any recommendations? I need a reasonable amount of diskspace too- my internal hard drive is pretty cluttered atm. I'm thinking 320-500 gigs.

Thanks!

Answer
The small portable external hard drives that are only powered by your USB port are not nearly as nice as the ones that are a bit larger and have there own power. The larger ones run much quicker. I would recommend buying one with a power cord. As for which one, most all of the market are great right now. I just would not go out and pay for the lowest base price one, look for sales of the nicer version and you can get a great deal. If you can wait till after Thanksgiving, they are on HUGE sales. I bought a 500 GB one from Target for $45 normally $150. Hope this helps!

JORDAN

whats wrong with my hard drive and how can i fix it ?

Damian

i bought a 1 TB small external portable hard drive last year, it worked fine, but now there is only like 175 GB free space left so almost all my stuff is in there.
Now when i plugged it in, i hear a "krick, krick" sound.
the light usually stays on, but now it goes on and off during the reading of my 1 TB hard drive.
it is sometimes able to read and other times it takes 5 min and sometimes i laptop won't be able to detect it, so i have to unplug it and replug it, and sometimes it works,
if that doesn't work i have to put it side ways than it might work.

What is wrong with my external drive ?
How can i fix it ?
and how can i prevent this from happening in the future ?

Answer
Sounds like there is physical damage to your drive, take it to a service and repair shop or if the warranty is still vaild then send it to the manufactures for repairs.

Make sure there is adequate power supplied to the drive if it uses and external power source, use your external HD only when required, don't plugged it in all day.

I suggest you better backup whatever is there in your drive before it goes completely kaput!

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