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?
^You’re just planning on using it to transfer the music just once? Or You want to put it on the External and keep it there?
I’m no expert on these at all, I’m actually quite the newbie, but I’ve read an assload of reviews over the past few weeks. A lot of people complain about the Western Digital’s, saying they only work for a few weeks and they shut down… who knows though, maybe they’re abusing them.
I would definitely buy it from Newegg.com , A lot of great reviews on there and good prices, not to mention a lot of selections to choose from. That’s where I plan on buying mine, and a few other things I need before I head off to school.
^not necessarily going to get western digital. and i guess id keep on the external now that i think about it. but the prime reason i would get it is to transport my music to the new laptop. id order from newegg if i wasnt leaving for college on wednesday.
Dude, you’re all mixed up. You want to KEEP it as FAT32 if you’re on a mac. NTFS is a filesystem made by Microsoft; non-Windows operating systems don’t support it well.
^Oh, ok, thanks for clearing that up Fluff.
I had no idea what it was or why people were saying you had to convert it.
I guess when I get it, I’ll do nothing with it except put shit on it!
Personally, I’ve never heard of anything bad with WD drives.
I use them as well, as do many people I know who are much more computer-knowledegable than me!
That’s:
3 votes Western Digital
1 vote Seagate
(can I give a negative vote for Maxtor?)