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JJW009

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Re: external Hard drive recommendations?


	jonbwfc wrote: The number of USB drives I've had over the years that have had problems coming out from sleep and not mounting

I bought a very cheap box recently that does that. It's fine if I just use it for doing manual backups, but it goes to sleep after a few hours and just refuses to wake up.

It does look smart though, and it's very quiet. I think it was about £5 (excluding disk) and it's solid aluminium, which is nice. :roll:

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	timark_uk wrote: I use a VoyagerQ docking station with various 3.5" and 2.5" internal drives. The drives sit vertically in the docking station and behave like any other hard drive once mounted in Finder. I use it with a FW800 connection but it supports USB, eSATA and FW400 too. It's a very good bit of kit. However, if you want a self contained drive I can also recommend Verbatim's SureFire portable hard drive. It's an external, cased 2.5" drive - I use the 500GB version. It connects by USB, FW800, FW400 (via supplied 800-400 converter cable). Mark

mark where did you get your VoyagerQ.

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Sat Dec 31, 2011 2:43 am

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	lacloss wrote: mark where did you get your VoyagerQ.

I think I got it from Amazon, but a quick look now and they don't seem to sell it.
I've also noticed that there's a redesigned version of the unit now which supports USB3 and up to 4TB drives, which is nice.
Sorry I can't be of more help. (8+(

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Sat Dec 31, 2011 1:21 pm

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Re: external Hard drive recommendations?

http://www.macally.com/EN/Product/ipod4show.asp?ArticleID=337

I have ordered one of these ,I already have a 2 tb drive .
will match the new mac nicely.....

Sat Dec 31, 2011 7:22 pm

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