"My Book - Home Edition" - Oxford? Recommendations?

[JoBoy]

Originally Posted by dnanian

I've been quite unhappy with my test results with Western Digital MyBook drives (I have a series of them), and don't recommend them. They won't work as startup drives for Power PC Macs, and I've had a lot of problems with communication being lost during copies, across sleep/wake cycles, etc.

I've found the Seagate FreeAgents -- also widely available, and with eSATA, etc -- to perform better. Also, the Maxtor OneTouch series...

Dave:

Last year I bought a Seagate eSATA external drive. See: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/pro...ta_hard_drive/

I save my main drive to this Seagate using SD! 2.1.4 running OSX 10.4.11. The Seagate eSATA will not boot. Do you have any experience with this external Seagate? I have a PowerMac dual 2.5 GHz G5 (PPC) 2GB RAM and the eSATA card that came with the Seagate drive. I had decided, without any evidence, that the Seagate didn't have the right chip set. Thanks in advance for any info you may have.