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Hi all
anyone got any recommendations for an external hard drive for a mac? don't like the 2 year life span the Apple Time Capsule seems to have.
Any recommendations, views appreciated.

Cheers.

Isn't ex drive an ex drive you just have to format for mac OS.

Not NTFS of Fat er Googe

Edit: http://www.ehow.com/how_2063795_format- ... ac-os.html

How to format a drive for Mac OS X
http://youtu.be/LN5my4Lrd-4

Looks as if Journaled for mac

For drive I like Western Digital not had a problem. The great WD Vs Seagate

Can you just use any drive formatting correctly ?. Maplin always has a cheap selection of external 500GB/1TB drives..assuming they can be used.

Andy

Avoid the apple time capsule, absolute crap. had 2 before i changed to a 1tb wd 'my book' for mac - excellent piece of kit, easy to use etc and its fully compatible with time machine.

Just bought a imac myself and have been wondering the same, was going to buy a WD Passport as have one on my windows laptop and been great. anyone know if its possible to have one external drive that works on both a mac and windows machine so can save and transfer without needing two separate external drives ?

There are several add ins that let a mac read NTFS formatted drives, I think google actually support one of them.

However you usually need to disable this if you want to reboot into boot camp.

Any USB disc should be fine.

I personally use an AirPort Extreme base station with a 2tb disc plugged into it, which means everything can access it and my macs will run time machine on it.

Just picked up a WD my book for mac 1tb. It's just for time machine back ups.
Thanks for your input guys.

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