[jdizzel]

Hey guys,

I am kind of new to the Mac world, so please don't laugh at me if this question sounds stupid.

Will any external hard drive work with a Mac or do I need a certain type of external hard drive to work with a Mac G4?

[Randman]

Any hard drive should work, but you will probably want to re-format it as most externals are formatted for peecee.
Go into Utilities > Disk Utility and if you hit erase on the hard drive, it'll ask if you want to reformat it.

[MilkmanDan]

If you're buying one, might I say you should buy a Firewire one.

You can very easily buy an external case for $50 (that will do firewire and USB 2.0) and then add a HD to it. Its cheaper in the end.

dealmac.com had good tracking of deals. newegg.com has good cases.

[d.fine]

Try one of these threads :

External FW Drive

External Storage/Backup Device

Good Luck ...