Recommendation for External Drive for Time Machine

[Microman]

I bought an external Western Digital Elements drive with 640 Gigs, and moved it internally in my 2006 Black Macbook. Now I need an external drive to use Time Machine. I put the 120 Gig from the Macbook in the external case, but Time Machine says it is not big enough.

Need recommendation for external. EIther another WD Elements which works fine and is USB 2.0 or ?

Think of going to Fry's tonight and picking up the drive, and maybe a Buffalo Router... that WHR HP G54 one I hear is pretty stable, and may not need to be unplugged like my netgear WGR614 V5, that keeps asking for password to my network until I unplug it and plug it back in.

[Trouble]

I use a 2 TB Seagate GoFlex drive. I have it partition to use a 700 GB volume to nightly cloning and the rest for Time Machine. The GoFlex is USB in the box, but the FW800 adapter is $20 at Best Buy.

[jdc]

Whatever is cheapest.

USB is fine.

You dont have FW800, no need for the adapter.

[Trouble]

jdc wrote: You dont have FW800, no need for the adapter.

USB is fine, but for only $30 more ($20 adapter + $10 Firewire 6 pin to 9 pin cable) I'd go with firewire.

Any 1 TB USB laptop drive would be fine. As a matter of fact, I picked up a Seagate 1 TB 2.5" drive today at Costco for $100 to backup my new laptop. Single cable is all that is needed so you could do that as well.

But I like having both TM and a bootable clone for my mac.

[jdc]

$30 to get what tho?

Dont get me wrong -- I have 5 FW800 devices hanging off my iMac (including one of those Seagate adapters for 3.5" drives) -- but for simple backup its not going to save any time or energy.

about the only nice thing is using a FW port rather than a USB port.

heres a 1TB quad interface green drive for $95 after rebates: http://www.macmall.com/p/Fantom-Drives-H...dp.fejdjga