External Hard Drive for both Mac and PC

BCEagle91
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:10:50 +0000

I like Western Digital drives but I’ve heard that the My Books feel flimsy.

If you’re looking for performance and high-capacity, then 2.5 inch external notebook drives probably aren’t the way to go. Many use passive cooling and run at 5400 RPM and you generally get larger caches on desktop drives.

I don’t remember what the situation with MacBooks are on Firewire but if MacBooks come with Firewire 800, then that would be the fastest way to hookup the external drive. The downside is that Firewire 800 enclosures can be rather pricey.