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- fliptail70
I have a lacie and a simple tech black cherry. The simple tech has been sent back for replacement warranty issues once. Now it stays at home most of the time to store movies. I take the lacie to work most days. The thing I like on the lacie is it is can be read by pc and mac.
I think portables are good for large ammounts of storage but they are at risk of corrupting.
Best bet is to back up your portable at home on another larger HD.
My wife keeps her portable in the original package when she transports it. She is in IT and says she has seen too many portable HDs get corrupted.
- kona0
I've got two WD MyBook 500TB drives and I've had nothing but good luck. I've been thinking about selling them and upgrading to one 1TB drive and am leaning towards another MyBook.
- andrewdargan0
LaCie's are good
- Ranger0
I've got an 8 year old Lacie, still going strong, but had a couple of the newer ones since and they have all died, power units failing. Same with iomega, had 4 of them die at work in about 3 years.
Bought a 2TB mybook and so far so good, only had it for a couple of months though. It's pretty much silent compared to all the others I've had. It's got the 2 x 1TB drives mirroring each other so hopefully if one does go I won't lose anything.
- popeluke0
I have 2 of those and do video editing straight from them.
They are super small and blazing fast.
But only 500MB.
http://verbatim.com/products/det…Stay away from Lacie. I had only problems with it. Even the so called rugged one broke and so did it's replacement. In addition really shitty customer servcie.
- Projectile0
I've had a MyBook and a Maxtor fuck out on me. Lost 3 years of photos.. and for me that means about 30 gigs! >.< and about £700 just to see if they can get the data off. (yes i've tried the basic recovery methods)
just thought i'd share that
- akrok0
firewire 800 is fast enough. don't wait. that's silly.
- Also, your current laptop has no USB 3raf
- USB 3.0 Promises Faster Speeds, Backward Compatibility
http://www.pcworld.c…
Knowledge is powerPersonaNonGrata
- nadanada0
g-drive by hitachi.
- jaylarson0
stay away from lacie.
- PersonaNonGrata0
yea buying firewire at this point would not be good business.
USB 3.0
ESATA
and some other new technology thats supposed to surpass usb 3.0 before it even gets off the ground
- MrT0
WD MyBooks were a bit dodgy a couple of generations ago, I had a huge problem with mine due to it installing software all over the place and screwing up disk burning functions. Sorted it though with help from macsales.com tech support.
Since then I've had no issues and have bought a newer one. I'd recommend 'em.
- DrBombay0
USB 3.0 will be available soon.
- akrok0
FireWire vs. USB 2.0 Hard Drive Performance Comparison
Read and write tests to the same IDE hard drive connected using FireWire and then Hi-Speed USB 2.0 show:Read Test:
5000 files (300 MB total) FireWire was 33% faster than USB 2.0
160 files (650MB total) FireWire was 70% faster than USB 2.0
Write Test:5000 files (300 MB total) FireWire was 16% faster than USB 2.0
160 files (650MB total) FireWire was 48% faster than USB 2.0and this with "old" firewire 400.
- if you work with video. USB sucks ass. (not a pretty ass, just in case you thought so)akrok
- nthkl0
After so many external hard drive failures in the past I've turned to making my own. That means a simple case enclosure, with the option to get a proven internal hard drive that you can find on new egg or at mac sales. Here's the case I dig from macsales:
Firewire version since you asked, but I use USB 2.0 which is cheaper: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/O…
Then your own hard drive.
Once the drive is full, I store it or put it in an open bay on my mac pro. Then get a fresh drive for the case.
- there is a reason why USB is cheaper.akrok
- Very interesting.imadesigner
- Hombre_Lobo0
I have a USB 250gb WD passport, had it
for years and it's great.I'm getting the WD 1tb USB 2 passport soon also. I can't be bothered with power adapters, USB powered saves hassle.
- it also strains your internal hd as it is sharing the poweridiots
- desmo0
I have a 1.5TB drive and a 500GB drive. Both from WD. Have had no problems whatsoever. Prior to these drives, I had 1 250 LaCie which has lasted me well over 7 years.
Honestly, if you take care of your hdd's and handle with care, you will be totally fine.
- yup, my 2-250 GB are Lacies, I think their around the same age, very reliable.moldero
- moldero0
I use this one:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/P…
its great, very fast, and I need that since Im primarily working with large video files
but I also have one of these (i use for my PS3 movies)
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/P…
what I dont like about it is this "WD SmartWare" thing on it I cant get rid of even when I format it, sucks.but most of my other drives are WD, no problems with any of them ever, except for 1 time when I dropped a 1TB hd, i managed to salvage all my data, but the drive itself is done.
- akrok0
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/m…
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/f…not sure if they sell these in the eu. though.