External hard drives

[jane stojkiw]

Hi can anyone recommend external hard drive for laptops, I have a dell inspiron 6400 xp and a macbook pro, has anyone heard of xpress pocket size are thay any good, do these items need firewalls? Just some advice please.

Thanks Jane

[fo3nix]

Firewalls? No hard drives need firewalls.

The Macbook Pro will like Firewire drives more. If you have a Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro, it's got Firewire 800. If you do anything with large files (video editing, etc.), then you'll want this.

Also, Firewire is generally a better interface for Macs anyway (with respect to making backups).

I can recommend the Lacie drives. They're especially recommended for Macs. Maxtor and Seagate are other good brands.

[jane stojkiw]

Thank you very much for your assistance.

I appreciate it.

Jane