Which External Hard Drive Should I buy?

Depending on what interface you want, you have a variety of choices from Other World Computing. I bought one of the basic OWC Neptune FW400 drives mainly for backup, but it is also bootable on my older machine. The newer Intel machines can boot via USB 2, so that might be a good faster option for your MacBook, but they have some OWC Mercury drives that offer multiple interface options, so you have the flexibility of FW400/800 USB2/1.

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Get two of them, so you can make a regularly scheduled backup, using DejaVu, Retrospect, or CarbonCopyCloner, etc...

I like Western Digital Firewire drives. They go on sale all the time at Best Buy or you can shop the net.

I recommend one at least 3X the size of your internal drive and you can partition it to serve different functions like music, backup, Time Machine, etc.

Good luck and don't delay making regular backups of your important information.

Hi Kane513 May I suggest upgrading the hard drive in your macbook ( bought a Western Digita 250gb drive at Best Buy for 135.00 and then purchased a external hard drive enclosure for my original 80gb drive which I will be using for Time Machine. I got the enclosure from OWC ( Other World Computing for 30.00.

Best of luck.
Rob