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What external hard drive do you use?

Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville

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I'm currently in the market for a external hard-drive with about 250-300GB of storage that I can also boot my mac from in an emergency (so it'll need to have firewire). I've looked at the usual suspects, Lacie, iomega but nothing stands out.

Let me know what your recommendations are.

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