Thanks Phil. I have a very old Lacie which is completely full and I haven't used in years, but never had a problem with it so maybe even though a little more expensive Lacie is the way to go. On Nov 2, 2013, at 8:00 PM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I bought a LaCie 2tb external drive from the apple store. It is both USB and > Firewire800, and can be used as an external boot drive. This model (2tb) is > no longer made, but LaCie is good stuff, and Apple sells it in their stores. > It's good to have a combo drive USB/Firewire, so you can use it as a boot > drive if desired. For the Air, which has no firewire port, I bought a > thunderbolt/firewire adaptor > BTW: I have it partitioned into 4 partitions, one each as a boot partition > for my iMac and MacbookAir, and two data partitions which I don't currently > use. > > On Nov 2, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I know we covered this awhile back but amazingly I couldn't find the thread. >> I am finally getting around to getting a external hard drive as the last one >> I got wouldn't mount properly so I had to return it. I had gotten a seagate >> but with all the issues I had with it, I don't think I want to try and get >> another seagate. Can anyone suggest one they have had success with for the >> mac. I plan to use it as external storage for music and backups along with a >> partition for time machine. Thanks, >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
