The H/D on my iMac is near full. It's only 30GB so backing it all up is an option, but I'd much prefer a 2nd disk.
Any drive will have to be firewire and external, due to the upgrade limitations of my iMac.
The easiest, though not cheapest method, would be to just buy an external firewire drive. They seem to generally cost in excess of ?100, which in honesty, I'm not willing to pay. Any links to any others that are cheaper?
What I have also seen is this.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's basically a case that will allow me to plug a cheaper internal H/D into and then connect to my Mac via firewire?
This is where it's getting confusing as I don't really understand all the different H/D types.
Would this one be suitable to plug into that case?
In general what sort of thing would I be looking for in a H/D? I presume a higher RPM is better and a bigger cache is preferable, anything else?
Any drive will have to be firewire and external, due to the upgrade limitations of my iMac.
The easiest, though not cheapest method, would be to just buy an external firewire drive. They seem to generally cost in excess of ?100, which in honesty, I'm not willing to pay. Any links to any others that are cheaper?
What I have also seen is this.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's basically a case that will allow me to plug a cheaper internal H/D into and then connect to my Mac via firewire?
This is where it's getting confusing as I don't really understand all the different H/D types.
Would this one be suitable to plug into that case?
In general what sort of thing would I be looking for in a H/D? I presume a higher RPM is better and a bigger cache is preferable, anything else?
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