Portable HD recs?
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Think the question is how much longer are you going to hold onto the imac? If you had a PC you could bu a card. ..Try to get a drive that supports firewire800 + usb3 for future proofing if it exists. Firewire800 = about 70MBs vs usb3 630MB/s. Your regular drive in macs (which are Western Digital in a lot of them) usually get about 80-90MBs. Remember those are the bottleneck. You cant transfer to a backup drive faster than your current drive or the drive its going on. So firewire800 will only be slightly under-performing the drive potential.
As far as back up drives do you want to take it with you or just a secure home backup? Do you want expansion or a raided system for extra speed. Personally I use a ProBox that has 4 slots. And i personally like to use samsung drives. They were bought out by seagate last I heard so not sure how well they perform anymore. But my backup drives i have 3 2TB Samsung f4s 5400. Non raided keep it simple and they have about 110MBs which is very awesome for a 5400rpm drive. And I haven't looked at the price but a 2TB disk when I bought like a year ago was 75 bucks.
Also I heard USB3 is getting a boost in the thunderbolt direction middle of this year. So its on par with the audio/video all in one connection thing like thunderbolt. I dont know if that means new drivers or if its actually new hardware. I heard it uses the same port and all is backwards compatible..
Hope that helps or somethin.