External Hard Drive Update on My Passport Formatting Test

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Kevin Walker

Just a quick update on some of the latest info about external hard drives:

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The G-Technology G-Drive Slim (priced at £70) is a nice looking, shiny hard drive for the Mac user. Its aluminium shell matches the one on your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, down to the shimmery metal flecks in the finish.

Now that MacBooks are moving to expensive (but fast) flash storage, you'll need a large capacity external drive to store all your photo and video files, and in physical terms, this device is certainly a perfect match for your slim MacBook Air. Think of the G-Drive Slim as a 500GB sidecar for your MacBook, but is it a better buy than a commodity hard drive?

…More at G-Technology G-Drive Slim review – ITProPortal

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5 Responses to External Hard Drive Update on My Passport Formatting Test

Abe Noda says:

January 28, 2013 at 2:45 am

Dear Kevin,
I just stumbled across this and, I would like to purchase an external hard drive so that I can back up my desktop’s entire system (games, data, all the way to small updates to programs). But I would also like to use the extra space on the HD to store things from my laptop (videos and the like that are too large). Is this possible? Or can you only make it a backup or storage thing, not both?
Great Job!
Abe Noda says:

January 28, 2013 at 10:17 am

Hey There Kevin,
Thanks for your thoughts, I want to back up my hard drive onto an external hard drive without having to redo the whole backup manually every time. Is there a way that I can set it up to sync, so that if I update the files on my computer, the files on the external hard drive will be updated too?

I also have two computers – a desktop with XP and a laptop with Windows 7. Anyone got a similar situation with a functional set up for backing up files on both, without causing my brain to explode?

Thanks!
Keep up the good work
Abe Noda says:

January 29, 2013 at 10:23 am

Ola! Kevin,
Speaking of which, I just bought a 500gb external hard drive and i took off all the music on my laptop to clear space, but i gotten new music and i want to update my Ipod. I was hoping someone could give me assistance as to how i would be able to update my ipod with the music on my external hard drive without adding any music or files on my laptop. Thanks ahead.
Thanks
Kevin Walker says:

February 1, 2013 at 12:12 pm

Hi Abe, I’ve just sent you an e-mail with all the info you require.

Good luck.

Kevin.
Kevin Walker says:

February 1, 2013 at 12:23 pm

Hi Abe, yes it’s possible just make sure you pick a hard drive with enough space for what you need to store on it and remember – no matter how big a drive you buy one day you’ll fill it! So buy to the limit of your budget to ensure you get the right drive for you and remember there are EHDs on the market these days with up to 3TB capacity. I have an e-book coming out soon on how to pick the right EHD and what to look out for, here’s a little snippet from it: ”As a guide for when you’re searching for your ideal EHD a 1 TB drive will hold approx 300,000 high resolution digital photos (saved as compressed JPEGs) or approximately 440 hours of DVD quality video.”

Regards, Kevin Walker.