ADVICE ON EXTERNAL HD FOR FOOTAGE

[Christopher Frey]

Hi,

I'm an entering freshman working on mac. I have a macbook now and plan to keep it for my first two years, but I was looking into external hard drives for next as I have to have one and I need one shortly due to short film I'm filming. But I don't know what would be best. I know I want something with at least 500 GB and firewire, but my school says to get a HD with an OXFORD 911 or 922 chip and I cannot finding anything like that around where I live.

Any advice or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks