Seagate Technology 200 GB USB 2.0 and FireWire External Drive ( ST3200823A-RK )
Great iMac Companion
I've been running this drive for about two months now and I'm very satisfied. Right out of the box, the drive mounted under OS X 10.4 (Tiger). It comes formatted with a FAT32 file system. I partitioned the drive and reformatted the partitions to use the Mac OS Extended file system without any problem. I now have Tiger installed on one partition -- its my emergency boot disk. I have a utility automatically backup my iMac to the other partition every night.<br /><br />The drive is reasonably attractive, as external hard drives go. It can be oriented horizontally or vertically with a supplied pedestal. The drive is very quiet for an external hard drive. It makes no more noise than my 17\\" G4 iMac. It makes far less noise than the SmartDisk external CrossFire hard drive, also a 7200 RPM drive, which this Seagate replaces. When the drive is not in use, it spins down and makes no noise at all (or at least nothing I can hear over the ambient noise in my home office).