Attractive External Hard Drive

evildead · Dec 12, 2005

I'm looking for a new External Hard Drive but I want some thing attractive enough to sit next to my iMac G5.

Can anyone make any reccommendations for a good looking HD? In iMac White or maybe in a bright color?

Dafke · Dec 12, 2005

evildead said:
I'm looking for a new External Hard Drive but I want some thing attractive enough to sit next to my iMac G5.

Can anyone make any reccommendations for a good looking HD? In iMac White or maybe in a bright color?

what about these, i think they're cool:
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10693
they go in red, blue and white

7254278 · Dec 12, 2005

I love the lacie porsche drives, http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10384

Eidorian · Dec 12, 2005

Wow, I was expecting those LaCie drives to me more expensive. I'm still partial to my Maxtor One Touch II. I love the metal case.

mkrishnan · Dec 12, 2005

Haha, those lego brick ones are cute. Is there anything that closely matches the white plastic / glossy style of the iBook / iPod / iMac?

Blind Buzzard · Dec 12, 2005

tight-

This is my favorite design on the market right now. I was thinking about picking one up after the holidays for an extra HD that I have laying around. Look at all the ports, and the sleek look; pretty tight!

http://www.macpower.com.tw/products/hdd3/m9/m9dx

ruftytufty · Dec 12, 2005

LACC has the MacPower M9-DX (tho not under that name) for $69. A good option if you need the port replication (esp. Firewire, since Firewire hubs tend to be pricey).
http://www.lacomputercompany.com/cgi-bin/rpcart/index.cgi?command=dispitem&type=sku&sku=23737

Note that you can choose any disk enclosure you want (dealmac always has a bunch listed), buy a parallel ATA drive separately, and put them together yourself - very easy, and you get to pick the brand of drive you want.

There are a few enclosures out there designed to hold SATA drives, but they are much less common, and will explicitly say that in the product listing.

Flynnstone · Dec 12, 2005

The ones that look like a Mac mini are cool looking.
But if you're putting it near an iMac, I suggest hiding the hard drive unit.
The iMac is a very esthetically pleasing design. Hide the extraneous stuff.

plinkoman · Dec 12, 2005

i don't know of any white plastic drives, but the aforementioned lacie porsche drives are really nice and cheap, and their alu design compliments the white plastic quite nicely in my opinion.

jer446 · Dec 12, 2005

i like this one.. its an enclosure.. i have it next to my 20 inch imac.. and looks good.. if i had a powerbook or powermac it would match perfectly..

mkrishnan · Dec 12, 2005

jer446 said:
i like this one.. its an enclosure.. i have it next to my 20 inch imac.. and looks good.. if i had a powerbook or powermac it would match perfectly..

Errrr...*which* one?

javabear90 · Dec 12, 2005

If you have a powerbook or powermac, then the rosewill drive is really sweet. http://rosewill.com/product/category.aspx?CategoryId=17#template_14 Look at the RX30. I got the oxford 922 set, however there are 3 different chipsets that you can choose from. It is a really sweet, good looking, case.

Gokhan · Dec 12, 2005

k

the rosewill is wicked a little loud but very good and very mac compatabile
i got the rx30 very happy

Xephian · Dec 12, 2005

javabear90 said:
If you have a powerbook or powermac, then the rosewill drive is really sweet. http://rosewill.com/product/category.aspx?CategoryId=17#template_14 Look at the RX30. I got the oxford 922 set, however there are 3 different chipsets that you can choose from. It is a really sweet, good looking, case.

I agree, the Rosewill RX drives look really nice and especially when next to a Power Mac G5.

I might get one to go with my Power Mac.

applefan · Dec 12, 2005

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/

MacSales have some that go nicely with a G5. I don't know about the quality though. I've only bought RAM from them.

Opps. I just realized you were talking about an iMac G5, and not a Powermac G5

jer446 · Dec 13, 2005

sorry forgot to put it in my post http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7291557&type=product&id=1118840521901

kwajaln · Dec 13, 2005

Wow, that Dynex is UGLY!

I recently bought a 500GB Lacie D2 Big Disk Extreme that looks great sitting next to my 20-inch iMac G5.

Heath · Dec 13, 2005

Enclosure

This is the one I have:
http://www.memoryexpress.com/index.php?PageTag=&page=file&memx_menu=EmbedProductDetail.php&DisplayProductID=5119&SID=
It looks alright imo, but I'll warn you the blue LED on this thing lights up a small room, I have to put something in front of it because it's quite bright. Oh, the price there is in CDN$ too.

evildead · Dec 13, 2005

Flynnstone said:
The ones that look like a Mac mini are cool looking.
But if you're putting it near an iMac, I suggest hiding the hard drive unit.
The iMac is a very esthetically pleasing design. Hide the extraneous stuff.

Yeah, i was thinking the same thing. Maybe find a place to hide it on the floor.

Thanks for all the input!! the Rosewill looks very nice. Ill keep looking. I was hoping for something in iMac White.

Laser47 · Dec 13, 2005

Ive been looking at the lacie 250gig porsche drive, its really nice and only 141$ on newegg. The only bad thing (or maybe a plus) they only have firewire only or usb only.
And also if those lacie bricks came in firewire I would totally get one, they look so cool.

kparvez · Dec 13, 2005

Make sure it's a Firewire Hard drive

Just for your info, you may want to consider getting a firewire based hard drive instead of a USB based one. You can't boot up Mac OSX from an external hard drive if it's USB based, but you can if it's firewire based.

trudd · Dec 13, 2005

It's not white, but it's hot.

http://www.g-technology.com/Products/G-DRIVE.cfm

..so maybe it would work better for the Powerbook or Powermac user, but it's still a sweet little drive.

madd lock · Dec 13, 2005

After about a week of researching the best external hard drive for my dual G5...reading review after review and finally narrowing down my choices to 2, which was the owc's mercury elite-al pro 250 GB

specs here-> http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MAU8F7250GB8/

and the Iomega's Black triple interface

spec's here-> http://www.iomega.com/direct/produc...id=26890319&bmUID=1134545291119#prod-info-nav

So after going back and forth with these 2...I finally placed my order with OWC for the 250GB this morning

yg17 · Dec 14, 2005

I got an enclosure from CompUSA for 40 bucks. Just buy your own hard drive, put it in there and you're all set. The enclosure is aluminum, so it matches well with PowerMacs and PowerBooks

inlimbo · Dec 15, 2005

macworld has a good article on comparisons between firewire external HDs. Though it focuses on the non-aesthetic aspects
http://www.macworld.com/2005/10/reviews/firewiremain/index.php

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