External Harddisk Question

[epoxy5]

Well I just ordered the updated 24" iMac and I am really looking forward to this. I have wanted to do this for ages, but never had the nerves to press the buy button.

Well this morning it happened and as I am a soon to be mac owner I have a million questions

In terms of external hard disks I reckon the normal MyBooks will work ok?

But is it possible to make your own external hard disks with some sort of enclosure and some normal sata drives?

I have a couple of HD's I would love to make into Mac useable backup drives, just not sure if it's possible.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance
Thomas

 

[epoxy5]

Cheers I will research a little then... But I reckon there will be a lot of other stuff to research once I get it

 

[epoxy5]

most drives will be OK, but if you want read and write access they will be need to be formatted as FAT32 or HFS+. As Mac OSX out of the box only has NTFS read only access.

Ok thanks... should I format the HD's on the Mac or do it on the PC before I use 'em? Probably a stupid question, but I suddenly feel like such a noob