Any Firewire hard drive is best for a MAC. You can get either an empty one and install the software yourself or can buy the external hard drive with software pre loaded.
While external hard drives have the availability to work with multiple computers, it would be false to say every external hard drive works with every computer.
I would get an external 250GB hard drive for movies and pics. Or if you backing up your whole Master drive a 1.5TB External hard drive world be the best.
The fastest type of external hard drive would be a external 3.0 USB hard drive.
u plug it into your bumhole and it works
One of the cheaper and best external hard drive options is the WD My Passport 2 TB External hard drive. The WD My Passport 2 TB External hard drive is portable, and cost about $69.99 before taxes. The hard drive has an average of 4.5 star, and good reviews from customers. If you are looking to buy a desktop hard drive, the better option would be a Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard drive. This hard drive would cost about $84.00 before taxes. The Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard drive has an average of 4.5 stars, and all the reviews from customer are good.
You get another memory storage device, such as an external hard drive, and you copy everything on your hard drive onto the external hard drive, and keep it safe. That way, if your hard drive crashes, then you can take it out, and plug your external hard drive in, and work from that.
if it is an external SATA drive then yes, otherwise it is not suggested and rarely works.
Most external hard drives can be used as internal ones. Provided that the IDE, SATA, or SCSI interface of the external hard drive is the same as the desktop's system board hard drive interface. Users can remove the USB casing and proceed to plug the data and power cables into it. The external drive, just has an additional component, that's used to hook up with the USB port.
Right now you can get a LaCie drive for about $140 that holds 320GB. I've used LaCie before and have been happy with their performance.
You can completely clear your external hard drive by formatting it.
---- # go to "my computer" # browse to your external hard drive # then open another "my computer" window # drag and drop the file(s) you want to the window displaying the external hard drive. ----
A portable hard drive is just an external hard drive with set memory, for example 320GB, A hard drive enclosure is if you have an internal you wish to use as an external, you simply connect it to the enclosure and use it. However permissions etc have to be overwritten to access the data, so if your not very technical, best just buy an external