Macintosh External Hard Drive?

The hard drive itself is not branded MAC or PC, its the formatting... you can get any old external HHD and format it however you like it.. ie: NTFS = Windows formating - Fat32 = Universal and i forget what the MAC only formating is... but my point is that you should not look at the branding, but instead get you a budget HHD then simply format it for the MAC or in FAT32 for a universal drive

A friend of mine had trouble finding a mac compatible external drive, but I have had very very good luck with any of the simple-tech external drives. Yes make sure they are USB 2.0, any thing slower would be ridiculously slow, and almost unusable. I checked out a few firewire drives since they are crazy fast, but they are too pricey, and these work fine, and work right out of the box.

Now what nobody else asked but I will is if you have an intel mac, and what OS you are using. I you are using Leopard you will have no problems whatsoever, if you are using Tiger usually ok too, but if you are suing Panther, you probably only have a USB 1.1 bus, and even if you get a 2.0 external drive it will be dead dog slow.

If you have an older powerpc running jaguar or even Panther, you will need to get a firewire drive, cause like I said before USB 1.1 is too slow.

So lets over over this one more time:

If you have an intel mac, and USB 2.0 go with the simple-tech external drive, I own 3 500 gig drives, and they have been fabulous.

If you have Mac OS Leopard, or Tiger and USB 2.0, the simple-tech drives should be fine.

If you only have a Power-PC, and are using Panther or Jaguar, you should get a firewire drive, since USB will be too slow for you.

Lastly, if you want to use the simple tech drives with time machine you must reformat them for the mac, and make sure to change the master boot record(MBR) so time machine will see the drive as an available backup drive otherwise time machine will not run.

Good Luck!

They dont even recommend time capsule unless your running network with it. Try seagate brand. its all matter of preference just make sure it say mac compatible most are. Try best buy unfortunately or look online for some. I need one as well. You shouldnt have to format it you can find a good when ready to roll pc or mac . Prolly comes with sofware .

They are all Mac compatible.

...assuming you buy one with a compatible connection, of course. Stick to USB 2 and you'll be golden.

do normal portable hardrives not just work? if they don't man i just think mac's suck way more i dunno just make your pc think its a pen drive like a usb pen i can't remember how you do it but you can ....on a pc anyway