Reliable External HD
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- vaxorcist0
I've had 2 of 4 LaCie drives stop working... one locked up and stopped spinning, the other just wouldn't be recognized by any computer, then it made grinding noises and smelled funny....
I've had better luck with:
1. buying seagate OEM raw drives, buying an enclosure and putting them together myself in 15 minutes with a screwdriver.
2. buying normal, plain old office-depot Verbatim drives... so far they work fine and are very cheap, if slightly slower than the 7200 RPM drives.
I've also found that some drives are Mac or PC, not Mac and PC. Some work with both no problem, some require reformatting to switch systems, erasing all the stuff on them.
Many consumer drives have irritating software that's supposed to backup your system but may just cause problems... I'd avoid or erase that stuff...
- Same here. I've had much worse experience with LaCie than WD.RGB
- FAT32 drives will work on Mac/PC. HFS+ only mac, and NTFS will read/write PC but read only macanimatedgif