Handheld external harddrive

[topcat123]

My daughter is at university she has a macbook pro. she is wants to buy a handheld external harddrive something small enough that she can put in her bag. price is important as well as quality, she wants about a 500gb but doesnt mind having a 1tb. Any reccomendations would be appretiated. thanks

 

[RJC]

The unit below will be fine, I have a Western Digital version which powers of the USB socket and use between my Mac Book and main PC.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-011-OK&groupid=1657&catid=1659&subcat=1237

 

[jamesfreddie]

How much space does she need?

If its under 60GBs i would reccomend that she gets a pen drive, simply because they are harder to brake.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FL-036-CS&groupid=1657&catid=1908&subcat=1763

 

[CEUOTC]

Here is a 1TB Silver OcUK Value 1TB 2.5" Mobile Hard Drive External

Regards.

C.

 

[topcat123]

The unit below will be fine, I have a Western Digital version which powers of the USB socket and use between my Mac Book and main PC.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-011-OK&groupid=1657&catid=1659&subcat=1237

thanks to all of you, i had a look on all of them. I had a look at the one you said RJC my daughter is going to go for that one as she wants to use it between her mac and window 7. could i have a bit more information about it is it formatted for mac or window 7?

 

[CEUOTC]

Most drives come formatted for Windows, however no great shakes formatting for mac iirc.

I think mac can read/write to fat32, gets a bit hazy wrt nfts, iirc it can read nfts, however l think it needs a programme to write to it if it is mac OS X.

Regards.

C.

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