External hard drive help

cardiogirl

My son needs to get an external hard drive with firewire connection that he can use with a Mac at college. It needs to be 250 - 500gB. I have been looking, but am getting seriously confused. Can anyone help please?

ABH_3

cardiogirl wrote: »

My son needs to get an external hard drive with firewire connection that he can use with a Mac at college. It needs to be 250 - 500gB. I have been looking, but am getting seriously confused. Can anyone help please?

You could try asking on one of the mac forums:
http://www.123macmini.com/
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/
http://forums.ionmac.com/

Though this seems to meet your requirements: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Studio-Firewire-External/dp/B000W9KI42/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1197439962&sr=8-4
as does this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Premium-External-Firewire/dp/B000EXLVG0/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1197439962&sr=8-2

General experience of harddrives is, avoid lacie and maxtor for the sake of data integrity.

HTH

isofa

Western Digital MyBooks are excellent for this, used them for many years, but a little bulky, there are plenty of other portable ones, just make sure it has FireWire (preferably as well as USB, then if there is a problem you can use the USB port too).

There are other more portable ones as well, but many only come with USB.

LaCie make a large range too.