USB/Firewire HD??
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- agentfour
trying to decide between a 250gb external hard drive for £102
http://www.iomega-europe.com/ite…
Or a £160gb with firewire as well as USB. for £80
http://www.iomega-europe.com/ite…
is there any major diffeence or loss without having firewire? i would like the extra space for the price, but dont want to comprimise if firewire will be more reliable/fast.??
any advice would be gold.
cheers
- slappy0
Firewire is faster for constant write speed, I would get firewire in case you want to capture video on to it. You can also daisy chain like 130 firewire HDs in a row before the line gets weak and you can run the cable 300 feet without the signal dropping out (more flexable applications).
Never really liked Iomega, maybe I'm still bitter about the whole zip disk thing.
- agentfour0
yeh true. I guess i wont be doing much work to it on the fly, mainly using it as backup space and to hold crap which i dont need on a day to day basis. ie old work etc. It wont be plugged in each time i use it so its mainly for storage.
Also am looking at storing more photos/raw stuff. I never do video really.
- BUNKER0
I had one of these, died after a few months ... so makes sure you have some backup ...
- b_magallanes0
1 TB = $299
- mrdobolina0
When is USB 3 coming out?
- jpea0
Never really liked Iomega, maybe I'm still bitter about the whole zip disk thing.
slappy
(Oct 8 07, 06:24)+1
I've heard that damn "click click click" sound too many times in the past...
- mrdobolina0
We renovated our offices a month or so ago and did some cleaning. I must have thrown out 150 zip disks.
- agentfour0
ive heard nothing but bad stories and reviews about lacie drives??
- mrdobolina0
I have a Lacie 250gb external, have had for a year, works fine. The only real thing that is "Lacie" is the enclosure, it all has to do with which drive you have in it.
- agentfour0
i was looking at the porsche ones and it seems a lot of people have lost all data. And supposedly really bad if dropped or beaten around a little.
- jpea0
just buy an external case and get a quality drive to put in it. seagate generally makes great drives, and if it's super critical data (a backup perhaps?), get one of their industrial drives. For backups only, I have 2 maxtor maxline drives. they're sorta slow, but spec'd for "nearline" applications (ie: fibre channel setups). they're built to ridiculous standards.
- akrok0
get one that has a fan incl. its bull that the case cool the HD enought.
I also had heard good and bad about lacie hd.
I really like this one...
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/N…
- slappy0
I have a lacie porsche 250gig firewire HD, have had for 6months with no issues. No idea what HD is inside though.
- agentfour0
reccommended slappy? quiet??
- slappy0
It does what its supposed to, no fan so its dead quiet. The downside seems to be that I cant crack it open to see what drive is inside as there are no screws. This means should the drive die then I may not be able to by a new drive for it.
- acescence0
I have 6 lacie doorstops i can lend you. they also double as paperweights. for storing data, not so good.
- OBBTKN0
Did you tried the WD ones?? Mybook for example.
http://www.westerndigital.com/en…
WD allways done robust HDs.
I´ve got a 250GB one, and goes fine.
- toe_knee0
I hae two porche lacies for 2 years. no problems here. rock solid
- dorfsman0
Bought a Lacie firewire 3 odd years ago and it's still working fine.
ttp://www.lacie.com/uk/products...
I def recommend going for FireWire even if your only backing up now and again. The speed difference between USB and FireWire is quite considerable.