I’ve had problems with data being lost on dvd backups
What’s the difference between the Seagate 160gb Freeagent Go and the 320gb Freeagent Pro?
Also, I have a mac laptop, will this be a problem with these externals?
And sorry to highjack the thread selassie…
I always backup to DVD and have never had a problem losing data from them.
I always re-verify the files on the burned DVD even if it was burned “successfully”.
Also, burning at 4X greatly reduces your chances of a mis-burn.
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hijack away. i’m glad its relevant for people.
sorry i don’t have any info to help though…
i decided to just get my dell laptop for college with an internal 160 gb hard drive. they had a deal where they were selling inspirons with free 160gb hard drives and free 2gb of ram so i figured id hack into that. 160 gb should do the job for now
Be careful with that train of thought, spooks.
I burned out my laptop many times, although it was not as good as a Dell.
But filling up a machine, especially a laptop, is not really a good idea.
Anyone know the answer to this guy?
Besides the different gig amounts?
No, kind of in general…
the “Go” one is flat and the “Pro” stands straight up…
Is one better for moving around than the other…?s
it depends on what the interface is, it will usually be usb or firewire just check what the drive is and make sure you have a free port of that kind
external drives almost always come formatted as fat32 which is fairly universal, if it’s formatted as something else you can reformat it easily enough using the disk utility program that comes with os x
Sweet…
I think I’m going for that Seagate 160gb, or maybe one a tad bigger. But I’ll probably end up settling on the 160gb.
Please elaborate, my laptop has about 80 gigs and I’d say its almost always 85% full. I should get an external and start burning to DVD though anyway…
You do not want to constantly fill up your computer, burn it off, fill it up, burn it off, fill…
Ya know?
But it works, donnit?
^No, I don’t think it does. I think Will killed his by doing that.
Will, I just want to make sure this is the one you’ve got…
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148258
I’m planning on buying it for my PowerBook, for school. Since you have put so much trust in Seagate and it seems to have pretty good reviews, I’m going to put my trust in them.
I would guess it is relatively the same. I bought mine a while ago, so it looks different.
Well, scratch that… it’s not compatible with a mac…
I have found a Lacie external that is though.
I see a lot of reviews that it comes as FAT 32 and you’ll most likely need to reformat it to NTFS…?
I have no idea what that means, is it a hassle to do this… I wouldn’t even know where to start with that…
i guess i might have to get an external anyway just so i can get my music off of my current pc onto my laptop. my friend got a really small western digital one with 120gb and i think i might go for something like that. any ideas?