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Which External Hard Drive ?
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dogtonharrants
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Mar 25, 2008, 09:17 AM
 
Hello,
I'm looking for an external hard drive/storage device to connect to my iMac running on OS 10.3.

I am looking to store movie files (DV, .avi, iMovie projects) and music files (GarageBand, ProTools) on it. Perhaps photos as well.

I am looking for:
- reliability
- relatively fast speed of transfer
- ability to transfer files of several gigabytes
- value for money

Any advice would be much appreciated,
Thanks
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mduell
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Mar 25, 2008, 09:24 PM
 
Is there some way that the previous hundreds of threads on external hard drives have failed to meet you needs?
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bearcatrp
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Mar 26, 2008, 10:17 AM
 
OWC and newegg is a place to shop. Might want to concider a multi drive set up so you can do backups too. With the multidrive set up, you can put whatever you want as your needs grow. Hitachi drives are good. I just grabbed a 1TB for 250 with a 30 dollar rebate from OWC.
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