![]() Shop for hard drives & storage devices at Best Buy. Choose from a selection of hard drives, USB drives, cables, accessories and more online at Best Buy. One of the Best Value and Durable External Hard Drives for Mac ADATA HD710A. The ADATA HD710A comes with a waterproof/ dustproof/ shock-resistant body, 2 TB storage capacity, USB 3.1 port and a groove for keeping the cable. Your external hard drive is a precious device where people keep their most private and useful files. The drives inside external HDs are pretty much the same for most, but the case design is unique. LaCie has (my opinion) the best designed cases, they do supply lots of cables. (I got FW400, FW800 and USB2.0 cables with mine, it's a d2 triple, so no eSata) The power management is very good on the d2, much better than most other externals I've used. I bought my LaCie d2 the same time as I bought my 1.33GHz Powerbook G4, and it's still going great, used everyday! (The PB, on the other hand, did die after a year and got replaced by a 1.5GHz for free). I'm looking to buy an external hard drive for my MBP & I'm not really sure what to get. I have been looking and looking & the reviews on multiple sites are always mixed. I want a hard drive with 1Tb, 7200 & I hear that cache is also important though I'm not sure how much I really need. My mac has a port for firewire & from what I have read, this is much faster than USB, so that would be preferable. Also I'm trying to stay under $200 & would like to be closer to $150 (if possible). These are the two drives I have narrowed this down to as of right now, but I am open to suggestions if people think there is a far superior drive out their in this price range. LaCie d2 Quadra External Hard Drive - 301442U Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 1TB USB 2.0 & FireWire 400/800 External Hard Drive for Mac - ST310005FJA105-RK Here is a side by side comparison of the two on newegg (+ various other sites have info on these two drives): Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions you can offer me!!! ![]() I am running Snow Leopard & want something that works with this (as I'm hearing not all external hard drives seem to do this well yet) ~Thanks!!! What’s a Wireless Hard Drive? RELATED: Traditional external hard drives require a USB port to connect to your computer. Wireless hard drives, as the name implies, use either Bluetooth or WiFi to allow almost any kind of mobile or stationary device to access the files stored inside. This is particularly useful for mobile devices like smartphones or tablets, which don’t have simple USB ports like laptops–they have a Micro-USB (Android) or Lightning (iPhone) port. This means that unless you buy some very creative adapters and download third-party apps that aren’t even available in the main app stores, a regular external hard drive won’t work on many phones. Some Android devices may work with external drives but, even then, they’d lose battery very quickly powering the drive. Wireless hard drives are battery-powered, and constantly emit their own WiFi network that any surrounding devices can connect to with a password. If you connect to it from your PC, the drive will show up in File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac OS X), just as though it were already plugged in over a physical cable. If you connect to it from a smartphone or tablet, a window should appear that will take you through all the steps you’ll need to begin transferring files to and from the drive. The battery life will vary depending on what you’re doing at the time, but most manufacturers rate their drives at about six hours of uptime while consistently streaming media, and around 20 hours if kept on idle standby. Should I Get One? When the iPhone 6s was first announced, analysts and journalists alike lambasted Apple’s decision to cling to a 16GB option. With the introduction of both Live Photos and 4K recording, it was clear that anyone who went the budget route with their next mobile purchase would run out of space trying to hold a measly 30 minutes of video at a time.
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