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Need portable drive
Jonathan Nimerfroh, Photographer
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Philadelphia | PA | USA | Posted: 12:16 PM on 10.28.09 |
| ->> Need to pick up a portable drive for my macbook. Can anyone recomend one thats worked well for them? All i need is a 500G |
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Dan Routh, Photographer
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Greensboro | NC | USA | Posted: 12:26 PM on 10.28.09 |
| ->> Go to www.macsales.com. |
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Joseph D. Sullivan, Photographer
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Long Island | NY | USA | Posted: 12:33 PM on 10.28.09 |
| ->> I just picked up a LaCie 500 gb external all terrain. I use it to store files from my 5dmkII while I work on them in Final Cut Express. I have a Macbook Pro and the firewire 800/400 connection is great and it has USB 2.0 as well. It doesn't have an LED though to let you know it's running or transferring. I find myself feeling the unit to sense the drive spinning. Very reasonable at MacMall. |
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Joel Kowsky, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Columbia/Morris | MO/IL | United States | Posted: 12:34 PM on 10.28.09 |
->> I've had really good luck with the Seagate FreeAgent Go and their new Expansion portable drives. They're both USB 2.0
I think they go for about $160 off of Seagate's site, but I bet you could find them cheaper someplace else.
Other World Computing is a great place to buy from.
http://eshop.macsales.com/
it might be cheaper to buy an enclosure and a drive separately, plus then you've got the option to upgrade to a larger hard drive without buying a whole new enclosure. |
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Will Powers, Photographer
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Denver | CO | USA | Posted: 12:47 PM on 10.28.09 |
| ->> Office Depot or Office Max had portable hard drives of upto a TB for about 150 a short while back. They were western dit and seagate as well as some other brands. I bought a non portable 500 usb drive for $84. |
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Adam Cairns, Photographer
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Columbus | OH | USA | Posted: 1:35 PM on 10.28.09 |
| ->> I'd also highly recommend OWC's Mercury On The Go from macsales.com. |
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Yamil Sued, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Peoria | AZ | USA | Posted: 1:39 PM on 10.28.09 |
| ->> Best Buy just Discontinued a whole lot of Western Digital My Passport Drives, I picked up Six 500 GB Drives for under $70 each!! I had Coupons too, so I saved 10% on each Drive I purchased. |
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Jonathan Nimerfroh, Photographer
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Philadelphia | PA | USA | Posted: 12:37 AM on 10.29.09 |
| ->> Yamil - Just picked up 2. does the cd software (wd smartware) for the WD passport drive show up on your desktop everytime you plug in the drive? Pretty annoying. Any way to get rid of that? |
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Jim Colburn, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Jamey Price, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Charlotte | NC | USA | Posted: 8:27 AM on 10.29.09 |
| ->> Western Digital makes GREAT portable hard drives. I have a friend that works in IT and he swears by them. |
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Jack Kurtz, Photographer
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Phoenix | AZ | United States | Posted: 8:41 AM on 10.29.09 |
->> Another vote for MacSales.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go
Their Mercury On the Go series drives are great. I have the FW800 "triple" drive, but the USB only drives are quite a bit cheaper if you don't need FW. |
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Stephen Brashear, Photographer, Assistant
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Seattle | WA | USA | Posted: 9:40 AM on 10.29.09 |
| ->> I got a drive from http://www.oyendigital.com/ with which I am quite happy, not to mention the prices are very competitive. They have lots of connection options and include many adapters so that you can connect with FW 400/800 E-Sata USD. They can be used with and without power supplied by the computer, depending on what connection you use. |
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Jeff Stanton, Photographer
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Princeton | IN | USA | Posted: 10:50 AM on 10.29.09 |
| ->> I also have a Western Digital Passport, 500 GB drive. USB 2.0, plugs into your port and no other power is necessary, runs right off your USB port. Plus it has an LED that operates when you're writing to it. |
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Tim Vizer, Photographer
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Belleville | IL | USA | Posted: 11:31 AM on 10.29.09 |
->> If you need it "in the field" go with the LaCie Rugged series. As their name implies, they are, well, rugged, and have a protective rubber outer covering. The version I use has USB 2.0, and Firewire 400 and Firewire 800.
If you are only using it inside and it won't be subjected to too much movement or vibration or such, then you could go with either a Seagate or WD drive (or other brand). I've got both of those too, I use one on a desktop, the other as my Time Machine backup for my MacBookPro.
Storage size ranges from 500GB up to 2TB on some of these units, you can cater your purchase to what fits your needs. Personally, I'd get the LaCie Rugged for one overall solution for any scenario.
Remember to get a drive that's larger than the size of your laptop HD, for incremental backups and extra room to store images and other things you wouldn't necessarily keep long-term on the laptop.
Any of the makes and models mentioned above are great units. |
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Andrew Kornylak, Photographer
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Atlanta | GA | USA | Posted: 2:19 PM on 10.29.09 |
| ->> I'll second the LaCie Ruggeds. I have never had one fail (and I've had lots fail, out of about 30 or so drives in the last couple years). Plus they happen to be among the cheaper bus-powered drives. |
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Delane B. Rouse, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | US | Posted: 3:27 PM on 10.29.09 |
| ->> You won't go wrong with MacSales, we've been using them for years and never had ANY problems with them. |
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