Verbatim 160GB FireWire/USB Portable Hard Drive by: Kristofer Brozio Published 22/09 – 2008
Flash drives are nice, but theyre not large enough yet to take huge amounts of data with us, so thats where … Read more…
External Hard Drives Will the iPad Kill the Kindle? Of Course Not In many respects, it’s representative of a belief that all markets are zero-sum: that for one to succeed, the other needs to fail.
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As a Mac user and Mac consultant, one of the most powerful tools to troubleshoot Macs is a *bootable* external drive. FireWire makes this easy (although I believe I have booted from a USB drive). Just put a good OS and your toolbox of utilities on the FireWire …… The mini is reliable and two potential problems: problematic optical drives (this applies to all PC manufacturers, not just Apple) and the internal hard disk drive which will fail on any computer eventually. … Read more…
What can I do to make this disk work with my G5? When I install it I get constant hangs when trying to copy my other (160GB) drive to this one. If I remove the WD 400GB drive and replace it with my older one I have no problems. …… I would not buy a LaCie product. All you have to do is read about their problems here on MacInTouch. Lots of reliability issues, especially when it comes to power supplies. When I need external hard drives (and I now have three that I use on … Read more…
I received the Hitachi 160gb and also an usb external enclosure. I used Carbon Copy Clone and transferred the contents of the original internal hard drive to the Hitachi. I didn’t try to format the Hitachi by installing it in the Mini ….. Eventually I chose to buy the little disk (Brand: Lacie) 320 gb. Yes it’s an external HD but I got it out the case. Sounds easy, but with this HD it aint. I chose an external because I wanted to reuse my old Hard Disk and so I was able … Read more…
“The announcements about Leopard indicate that I will need an external hard disk to use time machine, but what if I have multiple hard drives in my Mac Pro? Won’t internal hard drives work just as well?” Yes, and I have in fact been using exactly this …… I verified and repaired my backup drive (a LaCie 500) with Disk Utility, there were problems that were repaired. The disk only has 161.5 MB free. I also verified my boot drive and it was OK, but the problem persists. … Read more…
Not only will you recoup some of the cost of the 500GB harddrive, but you’ll be recycling by selling your perfectly good external harddrive to someone else who needs one. I would recommend using the Disk Utility and securely erase all the data on it …… I spoke to the techs at OWC and asked if there would be a problem upgrading to 7200 RPM from the OEM 5400 RPM drive, would it cause overheating, burn out components, etc. The response was no, that it would be fine. … Read more…
I’m wondering if you’ve had reports of hard drive problems in Aluminum PowerBooks, particularly with the 80Gig drives? I have a 1.25GHz Aluminum PowerBook I purchased in October of 2003. It’s on it’s 3rd hard drive, and that drive is making some odd …… Macworld found the FW400 LaCie was as fast as other drives’ FW 800. Part of the speed was probably from the expensive 7200rpm disk inside, but if you can stand a little slower drive, LaCie’s 5400rpm units look good (and … Read more…
Well, after bringing my iMac back from a potential grave (the hard disk chose to malfunction when I was trying to install Leopard, I got Leopard installed and was installing items, when I got to Little Snitch. I got it installed and started it, …… I seem to have uncovered an issue with a new LaCie d2 Quadra (500 GB) external drive connected via Firewire 800 to my second generation 15″ MacBook Pro (2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB internal drive) under Leopard. … Read more…
Lossess files sound much better on a home audio system, but on an iPod I can tell little difference. The lossless files will just eat up drive space with no value added, and in the end I’ll have no more files on the 160 GB iPod than I presently do on …… I believe that you could clone your current Mac hard disk to an external USB drive and then connect the external USB drive to the new computer and use the new computer’s migration assistant to update the new computer. … Read more…
I have replaced many 80GB drives with 160GB Seagate Momentus 5400RPM drives. The strange thing was that it had a periodic clicking noise (much like some of the IBM/Hitachi drives), but after five months, the noise has disappeared. … Can you suggest a great 200plus GB external hard disk drive for a Ibook G4?” I’ve been using LaCie’s external drives for a while, with my Powerbook G4. Right now I have a Firewire 250GB and a USB 500GB. The former is for backups, … Read more…
It’s the stock model that came out about 4 months ago with a 160 GB 5400 RPM drive and 2 GB RAM. Ken Workman. Most of the time folks report their problems with an OS update. Well, I updated to 10.4.10 from 10.4.9 and am happy to report …… Consider buying a product like Tech Tool Pro or Disk Warrior they are able to repair most drive problems. A second hard drive is an invaluable tool, whether internal or external. When you make the drive boot-able with a product like … Read more…
