iMac is almost out of room.......Need an External Hard Drive help?

[onhollowedground821]

So I have just about filled my hardrive space on my Mac and I am In the market for a 1TB hard drive, my question is I see some for $100 and some for $300 any difference? isnt storage storage?

 

[abernja]

My guess would be that some brands are just more reliable than others.

 

[agold1002]

spend the money on a good one because i didnt and had to pay $1000+ to recover all of the data

 

[iye2]

the rpm speed and cache is really the only determining factors in it as far as cost.

 

[thegoat121886]

Since you're on a desktop, you can save some money by buying an internal drive and a HD dock instead of a pre-built model. Get one with FireWire 800 for the fastest data transfer to your computer