iomega HD anygood?
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- aliceblue
read through the last HD thread
- nothin' on iomega -
any one out there with one?thanks!
- horton0
a firewire HD?
iomega seem to focus more on removable/ portable cards and such..
wouldn't be my choice for a HD.
- aliceblue0
horton -
not sure what to get -
FireWire or USB or both or...
What do you use?
- horton0
just get LaCie. they do desktop HDs best in my opinion.
http://www.lacie.com/products/pr…
triple interface/ USB2/ FW400/ FW800.
yes a few people on here have complained about them but just like any online forum if you ask about a specific product you're going to get all the negative feedback first.
i've known so many people with piles of these things on their desktops running 24hr servers etc.. mine's been running 4 years solid, just about to buy a 2nd.
- aliceblue0
thanks horton - sound advice -
sometimes (life) gets so confusing ;-)
- vwsung18t0
i've actually heard that they are bad.
- UndoUndo0
had a 120 GB portable a few years ago, it started to click after 18 months and couldnt get the data from it.
- aliceblue0
thanks peeps-
iomega bad!
- tenpointtwo0
I have one. Doesn't click or anything and have had it for 3 and a half years now. Only messed up once, but it was bad. It randomly corrupted and I lost my art thessis from college. Don't get one. Get a LaCie
- acescence0
4 bad lacie d2's in 1 year can not be a coincidence. that is bad quality control.
if you want something reliable, avoid the toys and get a glyph. 3 year waranty, overnight replacement, and one of the quietest enclosures you can buy.
- ribit0
We have 6 d2's, only had one problem, and even if a drive dies, its not a big deal as we never have data on just one drive (which would be just plain stuupid no matter what the brand).
- vwsung18t0
all hard drive will go eventually. there are too many small moving parts inside. if it's really important stuff you should get a raid mirror setup so that if one goes there's an exact copy in the other one.
you could get two external hd and have them sync with each other with software like microsoft's synctoy or do it manually.
i use a file server with lots of hard drives to backup everything. so i have a copy i work on on my local computer and a full backup on the server. i even have one for my movies at home. I backup every dvd and cd i own and use copies so that my original wouldn't get scratched.
- ribit0
and dont forget that RAID isnt always the answer... you dont want two mirrored copies of a corrupted filesystem... sometimes its better to do rotating backups across multiple disks rather than RAID mirroring.
- acescence0
good advice
- danthon0
lacie is just a name. Shop by what is inside. If you get a western digital drive and put it in a no name enclosure, the only difference is that you are not paying for a porsche designed case.
- ribit0
Depends what you see as the product you are buying. Sometimes its better to buy integrated design and guaranteed hardware/software functionality for the life of the warranty... i.e. its not just buying hardware its buying a solution.