looking for an external hard drive - usb powered

[MantaBase]

Originally Posted by screwballl

that is one thing that has really surprised me, that OSX has not stepped up and put in native support for reading and writing to NTFS formatted drives. Linux does have it but you do need some extra tools to make sure it is done properly.

Linux has two good methods. The one Apple would want to use in about 98% safe. I suspect thats why they never bothered because they didn't want to field calls. The one that 100% safe sits in a legal grey area (captive method). It's pretty legal if you don't charge for it - but of course, Apple would want to charge.

Still, they should at least give folks the option. I'm sure there are tools if you are a UNIX guru and drop to the CLI.

It's probably a philosophical thing with them.

Manta

[Digital-Storm]

I actually have a 40 Gig usb hard Disk Drive that pulls power from the usb port. It transfers data at exceptional rates and doesnt take more then 2 minutes to transfer large files to it. Large files being 2GB or larger. I have about 17 gigabytes free but it Did not take long to copy my whole World of Warcraft directory to the drive, The directory is about 11 Gigabytes. I would say about 5 minutes tops.

[lumpyryder]

have u tried tiger direct they have several usb external hard drives . I dont know if they have anything as big as a terabyte but you can check go to www. tigerdirect.com

[onebxr]

Build your own.
Hard Drive Enclosure How To:
and put as much space as you want in it!
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[a22shady]

I Have an Elements (powered By Western Digital) 250GB External usb2.0 and it works awesomely transfer's everything really fast i can transfer a whole movie in under a min (6-900mb) and best of all it wasabout 70.00

Here is some info on it Live Search: Elements External 250GB Hard Drive (USB 2.0, 7,200 RPM, 8MB)

[Dread]

I'd buy an OEM drive, then an external enclosure, assemble and voila', instant
external HDD to your specifications. I have 5, and love 'em (not in a really weird way though).