external harddrive for mac

PeakOutput

hi i need an external harddrive for use on the college macs

we were told it needs to have a firewire400 6pin connection and also needs to be formatted as a mac osx extended drive a firewire 800 9pin would be a bonus

i was looking at this on komplett any thoughts?

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b=&c=ie&cs=iedhs1&kc=NRS15351&l=en&m_30=136643&oc=N1053510&rbc=N1053510&s=dhs

babypink

ummm........ that's a Dell link, not quite a komplett page for a HD.

You can get any drive, firewire 400/800 or usb and it'll work. If you want to format it as os x extended - go right ahead and do so.

J-blk

As Babypink said, any drive will do as you can simply re-format it to HFS+ - if you don't want to do that, the Western Digital "Studio" line is already Mac-formatted on purchase and has USB 2.0/FW400/800 and eSata. I have the 1TB version of this MyBook drive:

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=341415

If you don't want the added bulk and the fact that you need to plug this one into the mains, you can get one of the 2.5" portable versions:

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=355007

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=355005

However, these are smaller capacity-wise, more expensive, FW400/USB 2.0 and stupidly enough, when you want to use the FW400 interface, you still have to plug in the USB for power. Much easier to carry around though.

uncle_sam_ie

I bought a 500 GB hard drive at Aldi last thursday for 79 euro. It's USB only, but for the price I didn't care. A firewire HD is good if you want to make a bootable drive. I have both. Aldi might still be selling them.