Recommendations for an external hard drive?
 

I'm in the market for an external hard drive for my computer. I have about 4000 pictures and 7000 iTunes songs on my computer, and it's really bogging down the performance. I have an Apple iBook G4, if that makes a difference. I'm looking for 300-500GB of capacity. Any recommendations?

Check out this link for some ideas. Prices have really come down for external HD's.

http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail.asp?dpno=382411

That is the one I'm looking at.. Good capacity, FireWire, and designed by Porsche :-)

I actually ended up ordering the 500GB version of that, from Best Buy.

I get all of my externals from newegg. Just order the raw drive and an external case and you're ready to go.

Btw- if you have that much info on a single drive, I would highly recommend that you buy another drive so that you can have a 2nd copy.

Hope you did your research on LaCie's. The failure rate is less than attractive. Mine seem to be having a few issues so I'm going with this one . It has a 16 MB Cache which is better than LaCies a 3 year warranty ect. http://www.westerndigital.com/en/pro...sp?DriveID=242 Of course the price is better on Amazon.

all of my drives are either WD or Seagates...

sometimes, at fry's electronics, they have great deals on external seagates. $150 for a 400 gb with 16 mb cache once, and $250 for a 500 gb

I own 9 external HDDs including Seagate and WD.
By far WD ones stands above the crowd both in design and functionality.
I love my 500 GB myBook and also 160GB portable one that draws power from my laptop.

Picked up a 320gb MyBook Premium about a month ago...works seamlessly. I couldn't be happier.