Formatting Western Digital 1TB Drive for Mac
If you have a family it is likely that you have mini DV tapes or even 8mm (how old is that) tapes cluttering up every drawer in your home. After switching to a Mac, I vowed to conquer the tape clutter and get my memories orgaized.
The first step was to find a suitable external drive to hold all of that media. My requirements were simple:
- large capacity hard drive
- firewire 800 - this one was key, if I wanted to import directly from my camera onto the hard drive I needed to connect both the camera and the hard drive to my computer. My video camera uses a firewire 400 to connect. Because my Mac only has one firewire 400 port, I needed to make sure that my chosen external hard drive was capable of using firwire 800.
The choices were many, and I read through several reviews to come to my decision. Ultimately I chose the Western Digital My Book 1TB Premium Edition II Triple Interface (model WD10000C033-001). This external hard drive met my requirements. In addition it is a RAID drive - which means that there are two 500GB drives enclosed in one case. I have the choice of running the drive as RAID 0 in which case all of my data will be spread across both drives and I will get close to a 1TB capacity. However if one of the two drives fail then all of my data will be lost. Alternatively, I can choose RAID 1 and all my data will be stored to one of the drives and a copy of my data will be stored on the other drive. Thus, if one of the two drive fails then I will have a back up.
To be continued …..
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I hope you’ve had better luck with your western digital my book pro ii WD10000C033-001, all I can say is they are JUNK after reading all the posts online. I wish I knew before I bought mine and set it to raid-0, my itunes and movies are all gone, and they are not bootable!
Sunphat,
What a bummer! So far so good for me, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed. I have it set to RAID 1 so it is essentially a 500 GB drive with a full backup of itself. Haven’t accessed it in a while though. Have you found a solution?