Hard Drive Hotel

i would love to have a 1tb external hard drive but as i here they are quite expensive. now i dont mind mildly expensive if it gets me more dependability so i am looking at 500g though that probly will only be full in about 3-4 months.

what do you guys recomend as being reliable (2 or three brands)?

is it possible to get a dependable 1tb system without having to sacrifice my first born child?



""" What you do with what you have, is more important than what you could do, with what you don't have."

> > > Knowledge + Action = Wisdom - J. Corbett 1992 """"

Is a Firewire drive dependable? Yes, until you have a problem! You failed to mention the systems you are going to be using. Does it need to be Firewire or is it that it will be simpler than a Serial ATA drive set?

Let me answer the question for you and others who post here:

Wayne :: ProMax, ProMax, ProMax!

Jude (and others) G-Raid, G-Raid, G-Raid

John OWC (www.macsales.com)

john u left ou the major point to all of that

NO LACIE

sure they have a couple followers, but so does scientology, ad they still brake and erase all your data



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Regarding large FireWire drives:

The bigger they are -
The harder they fall.


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K.



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""" What you do with what you have, is more important than what you could do, with what you don't have."

> > > Knowledge + Action = Wisdom - J. Corbett 1992 """"

Aaron
Made me LOL--Jay

Aaron Zander wrote:

> john u left ou the major point to all of that
>
> NO LACIE
>
> sure they have a couple followers,

yes becuase they work well and have never failed for me
nor anyone else I know personally up here (every pro store sells and recomends the Lacie D2's up here)

> they still brake and erase all your data

never seen on go down on anyone
I guess with 10X the sales as other manufactures there would be a percived higher failure rate
plus people class all Lacies as one type rather then split them off (like all the highly reliable D2's VS the stylish and more fragile Porsche model's)

if the company had such a failure rate as the Lacie detractor suggest they wouldn't be around anymore

BTW I would stay away from OWC or promax drives very cheap cases, at least my experience



David at Movies Rock in Toronto
[www.tofcpug.com]

I got a SATA harddrive hotel from [www.MacGurus.com]

You can also put FW drives in it.

They sell the Tower, cables, external connectors. So you can buy SATA drives and cables/connectors, FW drives and cables/connectors, USB 2 etc.

Then I got a 4-port SATA card for the G5.



Independent photographer, film maker and Producer. In the wonderful UK.

I got 2x5 bay SATA towers burly boxes
already had one controller card fail and my sonet card for my G5 was DOA

am not trilled about the controller card as I had to break my raid apart, down to half speed (was getting 300 MB's) and only have 2.3 TB to work with now

take it for what you will



David at Movies Rock in Toronto
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Well, I'm one of those lucky souls who's LaCie D-2 left the building after a year, and my second D-2 occasionally gives me that telltale click of doom. I suspect it's only a matter of time.

So far my Promax 250GB is great. Only time will tell. I take care of my gear.

BB