<p>D needs larger back up drive- reliable- easy to use- works with a mac.
1T or 2T</p>
<p>I have a time capsule which I am not so happy with so looking for other suggestions.</p>
<p>They all work with Mac. </p>
<p>What’s her setup? Does she only need it in her room? Is she going to carry it around?</p>
<p>I personally use DropBox (cloud storage) for most of my stuff and a [Seagate</a> GoFlex Net](<a href=“http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/file-sharing]Seagate”>http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/file-sharing) for my legal <em>ahem</em> media.</p>
<p>The seagate is network reachable, has usb on it so it is expandable (usb drives, other hard drives etc).</p>
<p>As to reliability this is a non issue. They are all similar (WD, Seagate, Maxtor, etc). Drives do and will fail. That though is not an indication reliability.</p>
<p>First, why she needs 1t or 2t? It will be costly if you use the “cloud”.</p>
<p>As far as HD concerned, just about everything out there is pretty reliable.</p>
<p>I think she has a lot of music and photo/movie files that she needs backed up-otherwise I would argue that emailing herself her school papers would take care of most of it.</p>
<p>emeraldkity4, I just ordered this for myself. (I use a Mac.) I haven’t received it yet, but it came highly recommended, and right now, the price is excellent: [MacMall</a> | LaCie 1TB External Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Hard Disk - Design by Neil Poulton 301304U](<a href=“TigerDirect Sunset”>TigerDirect Sunset)</p>