Buying External Hard Drives? (1 Viewer)

[Beanstalk]

what if i'm not too fussed about the speed but I want to be fairly confident I can store my music, my research work and my PhD on it without it blowing up with no warning?

I'm sure a Maxtor or Western digital will do you...if you want reliabilty you will probably have to pay for it and go for a glyph or the like, but even at that I doubt if any hard drive is 'unbreakable'.

It sounds obvious but you should probably back-up important files in a few different places. i.e. External drive AND DVDR/CDR...if you do that you're not totally screwed if your HD packs in.

 

[Beanstalk]

if you want cheap go to komplett.ie and you can get an internal harddrive and then an external casing that will have both usb2 and/or firewire ports. works really well.

http://komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=124243&cks=PRL
and
http://komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=121189&cks=PRL

=cheap

No price to be seen for that case...presume its around €25.


Are there any tinkerman sites for this type of external hard drive DIY?

 

[broken arm]

the seagate and freecom seem to get good reviews

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/sear...ntStoreID=33&bolShowAll=true&intSubcatUID=128

 

[nofriendo]

the apple store has surprisingly good external hard disks!

So are lacie any use ?

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

Lacie have ein guten reppen.

 

[nofriendo]

do i look germanian to you....cheers

 

[Beanstalk]

Lacie have ein guten reppen.

Nein, Lacie have ein schlecten reppen.

For writing from audio apps anyway...maybe they're OK for just back-up storage transfer.

 

[the departed]

i use lacie with final cut and logic. works fine. sometimes theres a bit of lag if you press play on something after waking it from sleep but havent had a problem. never heard of lacies getting wiped either.

 

[Beanstalk]

i use lacie with final cut and logic. works fine. sometimes theres a bit of lag if you press play on something after waking it from sleep but havent had a problem. never heard of lacies getting wiped either.

I read a lot of negative posts on Audio Forums about Lacie drives, but I was targeting a Lacie drive at the time so maybe if I looked for another specific brand I would also find just as many bad reports...who knows?

 

[the departed]

maybe tis true. but i think theyre fine. never had to trust them live or anything though.

 

[nofriendo]

cheers lads

 

[RSJ]

all i can say to people about external harddrives is this:

external does not mean portable..
i think people make this mistake too often and its the reason why people lose data. theyre fragile little bastards// if i ever have to bring a hardrive somewhere i have to wrap the arse off it and pad it up and organize a police escort.

To that end, the brother wants to get a drive for his mate in australia as a present, fill it with stuff, and send it to him. We've a cousin who had a small (probably 40gb) USB powered drive that he posted to us once, can't remember what brand it was, but it arrived working perfect. Anyone know of something similar?

 

[nofriendo]

pcworld have very small 80gig drives for 140. you could fit it in a small package!

 

[the departed]

yeah my bro has some tiny 100 gigger. ill check what it is.

or hey whats the biggest size usb key you can get?
can you get 8 gigs?
no moving parts...

 

[HMD]

you can get an 8gb on on komplett for 195
https://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=325454