Seagate Technology 200 GB USB 2.0 and FireWire External Drive ( ST3200823A-RK )
Mac users - Stay away from this
I had been impressed by the rave reviews a year back when I purchased this product.  I can tell you that I had nightmarish expereinces with this hard drive connected to my Mac.     This Seagate external hard drive is the most \\"noisiest\\" hard drive I have ever used. I had excellent experiences with Western Digital external drives before : Fast and quiet ,  both on Mac and Windows.     This Seagate drive when used on a Mac via Firewire, goes off to sleep even when I am working on my computer. When it wakes up, it making a grinding hi-pitched noise thats fills the whole room.    And now the saddest part with this Seagate product: Lately I am getting a -36 error while backing up my files from this drive to DVDs. And the next day, after I repaired my disk, 80 % of the files on the drive were zero bytes in size!!!! Shocking!!    This product is NOT SUITABLE for use on a Mac. It may receive excellent ratings from Windows users, but certainly mac users would like to differ.    (...)if you have already selected a particular model, check if it clearly mentions on the box that it can be used with a Mac too. (Look for the Mac OS X logo)    Good Luck!!