What external HD's work well with Macbook

[producertravis]

I have a Macbook 1.83 core duo, 1.25ram, and I need to get an external HD for my mbox 2. What is a recomended one that is fairly inexpensive? I do not need lots of space, as I only record my own projects.

[Park Seward]

Amazing what you can find with a simple search...

FireWire 800 (or FireWire 400) drives with the Oxford 912 or 924 chipset interface have been qualified for record and playback with the following systems on Mac OS X 10.4:
Pro Tools|HD and Pro Tools|HD Accel Systems (with Pro Tools 6.9.2 or higher)
Pro Tools LE Systems (with Pro Tools LE 6.9.2 or higher) with the following exception:
FireWire 800 drives are not supported for record and playback with Mbox 2 Pro systems
Pro Tools M-Powered Systems (with Pro Tools M-Powered 6.8r2 or higher)
Pro Tools Academic Systems
Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" only (not tested on Mac OS X 10.3 and earlier)
Please Note:
Hard drives using the Oxford 924 chipset interface have FW800, FW400, USB 2.0, and eSATA ports on them. (In our testing, Digidesign qualified Glyph GT Series Hard Drives with the Oxford 924 chipset)
Hard drives using the Oxford 912 chipset interface have USB 2.0, FW400 and FW800 ports on them.
Only the use of the FW800 or FW400 interface is supported on these drives with Pro Tools.
Up to 4 FireWire 800 daisy-chained drives supported when used without other FireWire drives
FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 drives should not be combined
For additional information when using an M-Audio FireWire interface when also using a FireWire 800 hard drive, please see this M-Audio Knowledgebase item:
Problems in combination with FW800 hard drives

http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?...4&itemid=23114

[producertravis]

I have seen all that, I am looking for hard drive manuf. and model number.
ex. SEAGATE MODEL1234, or MAXTOR MODEL 1234

[dobatron81]

my hard disk volume used to work w/ protools it was a

Media Name : Maxtor 6 L250R0 Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : FireWire

produced an album earlier this year, then PT m powered 7.1 w/ apple update 10.4.9 crashed even w/ combo cannot set disk volume to record and playback in the 'window/workspace' dialog box this drive worked fine untill now.

[dobatron81]

my hard disk volume used to work w/ protools it was a

Media Name : Maxtor 6 L250R0 Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : FireWire

produced an album earlier this year, then PT m powered 7.1 w/ apple update 10.4.9 crashed even w/ combo cannot set disk volume to record and playback in the 'window/workspace' dialog box this drive worked fine untill now.

[AfterimageMetal]

Do you guys have a recommendation for someone who only has 1 firewire port? I've got the 15 inch macbook pro, so I only have 1 firewire port for my 002rack, is there a way I can record the audio directly onto an external hard drive?

[Park Seward]

Connect the drive to computer and rack to drive. As long as your drive has two ports, you can connect as many as 64 together.

[Park Seward]

Oh sorry. I don't make product endorsements in a free forum. That being said:

The Avid MediaDrive rS80, Avid MediaDrive rS250, DigiDrive FireWire 80, and third-party FireWire 400 drives with the Oxford 911 chipset have been qualified for record and playback.

I have seen many recommend the Glyph drives as well as OWC.

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/manufacturer/Glyph
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/

Just make sure they have the Oxford chip:

Please Note:
Hard drives using the Oxford 924 chipset interface have FW800, FW400, USB 2.0, and eSATA ports on them. (In our testing, Digidesign qualified Glyph GT Series Hard Drives with the Oxford 924 chipset)
Hard drives using the Oxford 912 chipset interface have USB 2.0, FW400 and FW800 ports on them.

Usual disclaimers. Your milege may vary...

[tclash]

I've owned about eight OWC drives (Mercury, Mercury On-the-go, Neptune) over the years and have never had a single problem with any of them. Nor have my friends who have bought them based on my recommendation.

I don't work for OWC.