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- r_gaberz
sorry for the spam, but I am going to buy myself one of these drives today
Lacie 250 (Porsche model)
Lacie 250 (d2 Extrem)
Lacie 250 (d2 triple Interface)
Western D. 250 Media CenterI am not going to use it as a backup device, but to store my mp3s, videos, pictures etc.....
Don't really have much experience with external harddrives...so here are three simple questions.
1.) how reliable are they? They're not diying easier than an Sata hd... now are they?
2.) Since the mp3s are going to be on the external drive, do I have to expect that Itunes is going to be a bit slower?
3.) how great/usefull is the Firewire 800 interface on the non Porsche designed LaCie drives?
leaning towards the Porsche Lacie drive...just looks beautifully simple.
/spam over
- ribit0
I have the d2 250 triple... I think these are as reliable as any internal drive, seems very fast.
But... i use three d2's as backup... Retrospect backups from my Powerbook, and a d2 160 for an archive of images...but again it is backed up to the d2 250 every day using Retrospect. This is for business, and we are assuming that any single drive (external or internal) can fail ANY TIME...it's the only safe way to work...the drives arent so expensive for peace of mind?
- r_gaberz0
thanks ribit.
does anybody else want to comment on the firewire 800 advantage?
- edvard0
if you're only gonna use it as a storage for mp3 etc the fw400 is fast enough. but i mean the fw800 can never hurt can it, if you sometime in the future would wanna use it as a scratch disk or something like that. when it comes to itunes there is not differense just as fast as a internal... to small a transfer to notice any speed loss.
- umhello0
if its not too late, ill comment on the fact that when you buy those company-packaged ex. hdd. are a rip off. You can pick up a external hdd kit for about $80 in the u.s. and put whatever size drive you want in it. They mostly come with a couple different connection options available. You are basically paying for the name and the custom plastic(or whatever) case. If you want some cool looking case, make one yourself, its alot cheaper, and probably cooler looking.
- ribit0
It's not just looks... The self-built ones don't neccessarily have features like sleep mode (On the d2 the fan goes off after a few minutes non-use)... really important if you have several drives always connected, in a quiet room.