Which external hard drive for Tiger Imac?

I have a Tiger 10.4.11 imac. I am interested to know which external hard drives other Tiger users have used with their imac and which ones are the best. I am going to use the hard drive mainly to back up my work on Logic Pro. I will probably get a 500MB hard drive.

Please help. I'm not sure whether to get a USB2 hard drive... do Tiger Imac have USB2? and which is best USB2 or Firewire??

Thanks so much.

I Mac, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Mar 3, 2008 2:26 PM

17 replies

Kappy

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Mar 4, 2008 7:19 PM in response to andyBall_uk

You can boot an Intel Mac from an APT partitioned drive. However, you cannot install an Intel version of OS X on an APT partitioned drive. You can clone an Intel system to it, however, and it will work just fine.

BDAqua

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Mar 4, 2008 8:13 PM in response to Malcolm Rayfield

Thanks, must be something different about the RAID though...

Type : RAID Set
Disk Identifier : disk7
Version : AppleRAID version 2.0
Partition Map Scheme : Apple_HFS
RAID Status : Online
RAID Set Type : Striped RAID Set
Member List : disk3s2
: disk4s2
: disk5s2
: disk6s2
Total Capacity : 14.2 GB (15,199,895,552 Bytes)
Free Space : 4.7 GB (5,068,857,344 Bytes)
Disk Number : 7
Partition Number : 0

Type : Disk
Partition Map Scheme : GUID Partition Table
Disk Identifier : disk0
Media Name : WDC WD3200AAJS-40VWA0 Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : Serial ATA 2
Writable : Yes
Ejectable : No
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
Location : Internal
Total Capacity : 298.1 GB (320,072,933,376 Bytes)
Disk Number : 0
Partition Number : 0

Everybody making me doubt my sanity now... coulda sworn I "Installed" to that 1st one from DVD!?

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Which external hard drive for Tiger Imac?