Birthday is up and coming and I would like to get a nice external Hard Drive.
Can anyone suggest one?
A few rules though.
Musts:
Mac Compatible.
Good lifetime (I have read that Lacie products die quickly and often).
At least Firewire 400.
At least 80 gigs.
Hopes:
Portable would be nice.
Self powered would be cool.
100+ gigs would be great. (Want to be able to back up my 160 gig HD).
Firewire 800 would be awesome.
I would like a buffer more than 2 MB.
So anyone who is in love with theirs or can recommend something nice and new, I’m all ears.
I have a LAcie 160GB ext powered, the “porsche” one and a few of my friends have that one in the 160/250gb versions. We’ve never had probelms with them, mines almost a year old too. I use to have an Iomega one, and love my Lacie alot more, so not sure about them dying but from my experience they seem solid and reliable…plus they look better than all other HDs too look out the for the amzing lego one too! :krazy:
Self powered is obviously a big bonus, but costs per gig goes up big time.
You can also buy a 2.5 hdd and use an enclosure most 2.5 are usb powered so its relly great downside is the storage capacity at the moment aint too great.
A internal hdd with an enclosure is much cheaper and more storage for your money, us2 2.0 has the same or better transfer speed than firewire, so dont limit youself to firewire.
You can get a usb+firewire combo case but its pretty expensive.
You have options which is the good part, good luck.
I know its now the same but I bought a hard drive case and just slapped whatever hd in there.
That’s what I did too. I picked up a 120 gb seagate barracuda 7200 RPM drive with a 5 year warranty for $30 (after rebates) during the day after thanksgiving sale. Then I got a case off of tigerdirect (nothing fancy…usb 2.0 and NOT self powered) and I have a nice little external for ~$60.
This is certainly the cheaper way to go if you can find a good deal on a hard drive…plus you can always take out the hard drive and use it in a desktop if you need to.
I have a 250gig Maxtor II One Touch USB/Firewire (had a 160 too), it works great… I’m able to use it on my PC and my Mac w/o any issues (thus far). I’d recommend them… relatively inexpensive IMO, $1 / gig
I have a LaCie “Porche” 250g. I don’t know where you’re getting your information from, but it’s solid as a rock. Maybe you got that idea from a forum/rating system. For your information, not very many people post to say “Hey, my HD is working great!”. Most of the time the only people who voice an opinion are the user who are upset.
Where i work, I get customers on the phone every day saying “It’s all over the discussion forums, everybody is having the same issue! Is your company ignoring users?”. Truth is, the discussion boards is where people go when their having an issue. Even if theres hundreds of people reporting an issue with a product, they are still representing about 1.5% of customers.
Moral of the story, dont base your opinions off people who are emotional.
Is SATA II the same as SATA, just faster?
(If I decide to take the drive out of the external enclosure someday, will my powermac [uses SATA] support a SATA II drive?)
look out the for the amzing lego one too! :krazy: