On Oct 25, 3:29 pm, John Callahan <jcalla...@stny.rr.com> wrote: > Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive? 500GB > to 700GB's, is cost any indication of quality?Need only for back up, > speed is not a factor, nor is Firewire important. Something in the > $100.00 range. > Thanks a lot.
Anecdotal evidence about this sort of thing is always suspect. However... I like Seagate drives because they still had a long warranty when other companies had gone to one year. I think the other companies have changed back, but I haven't been paying that much attention. I don't like the Seagate external drives based on 2.5" mechanisms. I've seen a lot of failures in those and read about many. I would be cautious of any of the 2.5" external drives which draw their power off of the USB bus. That seems to cause corruption and reliability issues in many cases. I like my 1.5 TB Seagate drive, but I had to get it replaced three times to get a good one. Seagate seems to have or have had problems with their Firewire implementation. Since you don't want Firewire that may not cause you as much headache as it did me. Two terabyte external drives are regularly on sale at Newegg for around $70 these days. Watch their ads or sign up for their email specials and one will come along within a month, probably. Jeff Walther -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
