External hard showing "weird". Better known as, sharing an external/portable hard drive between osx and winxp. [more inside]
posted on Jun 23, 2008 - 9 answers 
My external hard-drive's on the fritz. What can I do to make sure I get all my data off it before it goes? [more inside]
posted on Jun 3, 2008 - 5 answers
I think I'm finally switching to Ubuntu on my main machine. I have two 160GB external drives, currently both with NTFS, currently mirrored (by software, not a RAID). With what and how should I format/use these guys? [more inside]
posted on Mar 14, 2008 - 8 answers
I can no longer open a number of raw and jpg files in a single folder on an external harddrive. What's going on? Is my harddrive about to die? [more inside]
posted on Feb 16, 2008 - 5 answers
What kind of transfer speeds should I be expecting from my new external Firewire 800 drive? [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2008 - 10 answers
I'm looking for an external storage solution that will play nice with an XP Desktop and a Kubuntu laptop...preferably at the same time [more inside]
posted on Dec 16, 2007 - 10 answers
Calling to the hive mind! Is anyone aware of a (reasonably priced (sub $150)) external hard drive (or, better, HDD enclosure) that meets the following specifications? [more inside]
posted on Dec 15, 2007 - 6 answers
Are there any particularly awesome external firewire hard drive enclosures that I should be aware about? [more inside]
posted on Oct 29, 2007 - 7 answers
How do I connect my NTFS hard drive to my new mac? [more inside]
posted on Sep 26, 2007 - 5 answers
What do I need to know about hard drive enclosures? My computer (PC) died this morning and I want to pull out the 2 hard drives and use them as external drives for my new Mac. I don't know if they're FAT32 or NTFS. I don't know if they're IDE or SATA. How do I find out? Do I need to? A little background on my old PC. It was one of the first P4 3.0 PCs with hyperthreading technology. I've had it for ~4 years
posted on Aug 28, 2007 - 13 answers
OSXFileSharingFilter: I have a friend who's trying to make himself a great file server off an old iBook - and has hit a snag involving a MyBook external hard drive. The problem makes no sense to me, and my Google-fu as failed me once again. [more inside]
posted on Mar 11, 2007 - 7 answers
Why does the drive letter for my external hard drive keep changing? [more inside]
posted on Feb 28, 2007 - 10 answers
Trouble with an external hard drive & it's USB connection, possibly. (details inside) [more inside]
posted on Jan 21, 2007 - 6 answers
I have a hard disk that I pulled out of a dead computer. It has been formated and has data on it. Are there any external adapters that I can plug it into so that I can use it as an external drive?
posted on Sep 30, 2006 - 13 answers
Where shall I shove a new HD? [more inside]
posted on May 16, 2006 - 13 answers
Lacie hard drive problem - Mac OS Panther. For the past couple days, I was ripping CDs as MP3s via iTunes and writing them to my Lacie 160 Gig Firewire hard drive (the Porsche one). This morning, the drive "is unreadable by Mac OSX..." What gives? [more inside]
posted on Jan 30, 2006 - 12 answers
I've just been given the task of buying an external hard drive for my work, and am looking for advice on which specifications I should pay attention to when comparing different options. The drive will contain data files, and the idea is that we'll run statistical analyses (using SPSS, SAS, R, etc.) on files that reside on the drive. The main feature I'm concerned about is speed -- I don't want the drive to slow down the analyses. But we won't be transferring large files to/from the drive very often, so transfer speed isn't important in that sense. Which features are most important for this purpose? [more inside]
posted on Jul 15, 2005 - 17 answers
How robust/durable are LaCie firewire drives? [+]
posted on Feb 7, 2005 - 15 answers
