Posted by Spex on 10/19/06 08:18

Kill Bill wrote:
> Ed Anson wrote:
>> nick666 wrote:
>>> for what it's worth, I have 2 External Lacie drives and one of theit
>>> external DVD writers, and have had nooo problemo at all. I use one for
>>> all my MP3's so it gets daily, heavy use, and the other for backing up
>>> stuff.
>>> They're all about a yearold now.
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>> I agree. I have been using mostly LaCie drives for over a decade, with
>> no complaints.
>
> In general.. LaCie drives are pretty rock solid.. I think it was the
> brand Lacie Porsche drives that have all the problems..
>
> p.s. I would highly recommend G-Raid also!
>
> -bill

A word of caution, I was intending to get a FW800 G-RAID but was put
off by the number of reports of failures from these drives. Not to
mention the bad service lots of people had reported as well.

It scared me off.

I decided to put together a third party enclosure and quality
(enterprise class SATA) drives myself and have not had a problem. I
recommend DIY...

For traveling with my Macbook Pro I have an ICYBOX USB2 with a 300 GB
IDE drive in it. No good for media work other than streaming finished
video clips from it for demos.

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