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External Hard Drive for Mac OS X 10.3.9

  • 17-03-2009 1:28pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I have a Mac powerbook which is a few years old and still running OS X 10.3.9 which suits my needs. I mainly use the laptop for audio work (Pro tools etc).

    I need to get an external hard drive however to store my audio as the mac hard drive is almost full. However looking at external hard drives on Pixmania they seem to require a mac to have OS X 10.4.8 or higher.(like the one on the link below).

    http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/813088/art/western-digital/my-passport-essential-320.html

    Could anyone suggest an external hard drive that would work on my laptop?

    Many thanks,
    RR


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,150 ✭✭✭Passenger


    Most External HD's will not require anything higher than 10.0.0. That's a strange one there.

    Pete's were doing a 500Gb HD for e109 last year which is compatible with your machine. You tried ebay?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭thecommander


    More than likely theres backup software included that requires 10.4.8, cant see a reason why the hardware wouldnt work


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭RebelRebel


    Thanks for the info lads, Think I'll go with this one. It's compatible with OS X 10.3 or later so that will work and its portable as well.

    http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/639995/art/lacie/mobile-disk-250-gb-usb-2.html

    What is the backup sortware actually for?

    Also is it possible to use the same external hard drive on a mac and on a PC? If I have audio files on my mac that I transfer to the external hard drive, can I then upload those files to a PC?

    Thanks,
    RR


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 549 ✭✭✭WUSBDesign


    The one you pointed to pixmania is a USB one, so if you do not require to be able to boot your PowerBook from the external HDD, then it is fine.

    ANother thing: must this HDD be portable?

    I personally would go out and get a cheap FireWire enclosure, a large HDD and put the two together. Cheap, large, fast and bootable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭RebelRebel


    WUSBDesign wrote: »
    The one you pointed to pixmania is a USB one, so if you do not require to be able to boot your PowerBook from the external HDD, then it is fine.

    ANother thing: must this HDD be portable?

    I personally would go out and get a cheap FireWire enclosure, a large HDD and put the two together. Cheap, large, fast and bootable.

    Hi Thanks, I probably only need something portable to store files really. So I don't think i'd need to boot the laptop from the external hard drive.

    BUt I'm new to this so would you mind explaining what is a FireWire enclosure and how would it work with a HDD? Any recomendations? thanks.
    RR


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