FireWire External Hard Drive Mac Compatible

The best fireWire external hard drive Mac compatible devices used to be all the rage. Back when FireWire actually mattered, yes that’s right. While most of the best external hard drive for Mac reviews we’ve done do still have a FireWire port, it’s more a small bonus because most people deal with USB these days anyway. And with the new USB 3.0 standard arriving and external hard drive manufactures jumping on the new standard I don’t see much of a future for a firewire external hard drive Mac compatible device, or FireWire at all for that point. I found this post  which is several years old now talking about how FireWire was in trouble back then, and it’s not got any better.

So unless you really do have some burning reason  to use Firewire (perhaps nostalgia or a USB port attacked you as a child) you might want to just take a look at some of the best external hard drives for Mac and use one of those instead. If you want the best of both worlds, our very top reviewed external hard drives still have both ports so once you’re sick of the slower transfer speeds and lack of support – you can always swap over to USB.

Firewire External Hard Drive Mac Is Outdated

I don’t want to disappoint anyone that was hoping they were on to something with FireWire here but I’m afraid you’re several years behind the curve. It used to be a great standard but times have changed and not only is it a slower option but so many less devices and computers/laptops even bother to include the port any more. You did the right thing by looking for external hard drives Mac compatible, because it means you’ll get something that actually works for your Apple Mac. But lose the FireWire part – the future of external hard drives is in USB and you’ll see that in any of our best external hard drive for Mac reviews.

FireWire External hard Drive Mac Drives Have USB Anyway

As close as we’ll get to doing a FireWire external hard drive Mac compatible review on an external hard drive is this post. There’s no point in hunting down an external hard drive which only use’s FireWire or something because you’d be getting a bad deal. The absolute best FireWire external hard drive Mac hdd is the top rated drives we feature mainly for USB, but that also have FireWire.

So basically this post is just to give you a heads up before you end up getting yourself an outdated hard drive. If you find one trying to tell you it’s the best FireWire external hard drive Mac compliant then the first thing you should do is check for a USB and compare it to some of the best external hard drive for Mac reviews.