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- npduggins
hi people
just wanted your input on what new portable hard drive I go for next... I've got a g-tech mini at the min which looks great but isn't 100% reliable...
any suggestions greatly appreciated
ta very much
- mcmillions0
I had a LaCie Rugged—still do, but I've just been using the 8GB LaCie Moskeyto and a 2TB G-Drive.
The Rugged was good, although for some reason, after six months or less, the firewire 800 port stopped working. It kept running fine through the firewire 400 port, and I'm not sure if that problem was a build issue or specific to mine, so take that with a grain of salt.
- the only drives that ever died on me were LaCie..... cases too air-restricting caused overheatingvaxorcist
- npduggins0
thanks mcmillions
- Peter0
Go with a fast but more importantly good-looking enclosure and chuck a new drive in there. USB3, etc. Say:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/O…
or
http://www.maplin.co.uk/usb-3.0-…Drives will fail. Enclosures...less so :)
- vaxorcist0
how is it not 100% reliable?!?
Yes, drives fail more than enclosures, but some enclosures cause the drive to overheat.. and... fail.....
I'd rather have twice as many ordinary hard drives and back everything up like crazy than a few supposedly geeky high-feature drives, reliabilty in a hard drive is all or death to me....
- Peter0
^ 100% reliable electronics? That's crazytalk. There's a lifespan to drives no matter where and what you put them in. Even nonmechanical drives like ssd have lifespans.
Anyways what are you on to? They're the same thing. Virtually the same thing. The hdds in, say, a Lacie won't say Lacie. It'd say Hitachi, Fujitsu or some other brand. Essentially the same thing but with the difference being that once the readymade dies you've got a heap of trash with no use but as a paperweight. That you payed more for. And with an enclosure you can pick the drive you think is more reliable.
And as for geeky high-feature drives? What made you think an USB 3 connection, hell even esata or whatevs, is something considered high-featured? Or even related to the failrate. It's a connector, mang. And it hasn't got that much affect to the wear and tear of the drive, especially in comparision with what the drive does itself. Crazytalk.
Tangent: if you want featured go for Satechis lockdown or such. Encryption, keylocks, etc. Plus a pretty sexy shell: