What portable hard drive are you guys using?
My 2nd WD passport has just broken. Need to be small, robust and 500gb min.
any suggestions?

thanks

I would take a look at this.

Lacie generally make good quality stuff. If poss, I’d go for the 7200 rpm version of the 500Gb -it is likely to be a bit faster.

I have a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Ultra Portable 500GB (USB 2 but you can add UBS 3 adapter if you want). Think it’s a 500GB … might be 1TB but nevermind.

Portable UBS 3.0 HDDs shoot out

Mine is permanently plug-in to my PC and I just leave it as it is then Syntoy to backup all data. Hardly takes it around …

🙂

I’ve got a 320gb and a 1tb Seagate Expansion Portable drives. Not had any problems with them, had the small one for a year and the big one 6 months.

Use the 320gb as a time machine backup on the mac, and the 1tb one for storing my dvds and old iTunes downloads, so neither gets really frequent use.

I read some worrying reviews about the power needed to power the big ones; suggesting you need a double USB cable to power it. I’ve not found that I do, and it actually doesn’t mount with the double cable that I use for the external DVD player.