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Please recommend a good external hard drive for an Apple Intel iMac?

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mshan

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My dad owns a 20 inch Core Duo iMac and it's 250 GB hard drive is filling up.

I want to get him an external hard drive for use with iMovie.

Can others recommend some good external hard drives or even bare enclosures for this purpose?

I think Firewire is supposed to be better for Macs, and ideally I would like one that spins up and spins down automatically when the iMac is put to sleep or awakened from sleep state.
 
How quiet (idle whine, seeks, vibration) is that Iomega Minimax?

Does it spin up and spin down when your Windows box is put to sleep or awakened from sleep?

EDIT: do you know what the actual hard drive Iomega puts in it?

And is it fanless?
 
External HDs are ripoffs IMO. Get a drive and enclosure.
My Samsung drive and Vantec Nexstar 3 keep me happy. No noise.

With a Mac you may want to look for a Firewire enclosure though.
 
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