Anyone know of an external hard drive that will work for a Mac?

Question

I'm freaking out, my Emac 10.3 is melting down and i'm terrified of loosing all my music, it's about 17 GB. I think my fan is dying, well anyways I need an external hard drive something big about 200 GB.

Anyone PLEASE know of anything that will work?

Answer 1

Any of them will work. Hard drives are platform agnostic.

The only thing to worry about is if your eMac has USB 2.0 or not.

Go to Apple Menu->About This Mac/Computer. From the resulting window look at the speed of the machine. If it is 1.25Ghz or higher you have USB 2.0.

If it is 1.0GHz hit the "More Info" button.  From there System Profiler will show up. Click on "USB" in the list to the left. If it says "High Speed USB" or "Speeds up to 480Mb/sec" then you have USB 2.0

You can also get Firewire hard drives, which is better for that machine, since you cannot boot to a USB drive from that machine.

Answer 2

YYLA's absolutely right; a hard drive is a hard drive is a hard drive, and you can just use Disk Utility to format it to FAT32 (if you'll need the contents to be accessible from a Windows PC) or HFS+ and save away. The one thing I'd add is that there are external hard drives out there that also support FireWire connections, which allow for somewhat faster transfer speeds than USB, but they're just less common. Oh, also, there are external enclosures that act as kind of an adapter for regular hard drives, but I'm not sure how much money that'd save, if any. Best of luck!

Answer 3

Everything will workkk maximize the space of ur hard disk.... about 900GB or 1TB will do haha.. that's preety big size

Answer 4

ANY EXTERNAL HARDDRIVE WILL WORK ON A MAC

every external hard drive is conected to the computer through a usb port so they ALL WORK!!! :D