[Ham-Mac] External HD Recommendations

[David Kelly]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 01:31:57PM -0400, Lon Kinley wrote:
> I'm in the market for an external drive for my 24" iMac. I have
> prowled MacMall and MacSales and a couple of others, but can't come to
> a decision. The WD "book look", the line from MacSales and the Mac
> Mini form factor drives from MacSales all look interesting.
> 
> What do you recommend (specific brand) and what do you suggest to run
> away from? I have already returned two LaCie 500g drives because they
> sound like thrashing machines.

I have an older 300G Seagate with both Firewire and USB2 interfaces that
is pretty quiet. Haven't tried to boot from it but believe as a general
rule Firewire drives are bootable.

Having briefly used other external drives I find Firewire to be faster
than the USB2 interface on dual interface drives and the firewire on my
dual interface drive is faster than other USB2-only drives.

Does iMac have an eSATA interface? If so then I think I'd go that way.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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