On 22-Apr-09, at 8:56 PM, Barry Takayesu wrote: > Sid: > > I'm forwarding your question to the group, with hopes that someone > there might be able to offer suggestions besides mine (to contact > Mostly Digital or check out Costco's Passport). >> maybe you or someone else in MUGLO has a suggestion as to >> a reliable hard drive for my IMAC. My wife and I have only been >> using the Acomdata 320G external hard drive for less than a year, >> and it seems to be unbootable, so I assume that it has died. Not >> wishing to repair it, unless that is cheap and easy to do, I would >> appreciate it if you could suggest a very reliable external 250G - >> 500G hard drive for our IMAC. We back up almost every day, and >> fortunately for us, our second hard drive (Acomdata 250G) has worked >> flawlessly since 2005. Speed of the drive is important as we back >> up large files of our movies created with iMovie. >> Thanks a lot. Both my wife and I will try to make it to the next >> meeting. >> Sid Presner Sid You should buy the case that Paul has for sale, then you can buy a separate hard drive; the one I got for Paul apparently doesn't work on a Mac, but the case is Firewire & USB 2. I know of 3 persons I've bought the case for & they all work fine. TeeC --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage your account options at <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi>