There is no such thing as a truly reliable external firewire drive,
sadly. Though I've had better luck with LaCies then with some other
brands.
Laptop users remember!
TURN ON THE COMPUTER BEFORE CONNECTING THE DRIVE
TURN ON THE DRIVE (if that's an option) BEFORE CONNECTING
CONNECT AND WAIT FOR
I've lost MANY Lacie drives and when I walked up to the VP of
Marketing for Lacie at Macworld and told him his answer was, It's
only a matter of time until one of our drives fails.
I then walked over to the G-Tech booth and I have been very happy
with the G-Raid products ever since.
I
Thanks Brook and I must say, I rarely did any of the
precautions you posted.
--- Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is no such thing as a truly reliable external
firewire drive,
sadly. Though I've had better luck with LaCies then
with some other
brands.
Laptop users remember!
Thanks Tim, time to back up many hours of HD Eye TV
content off my Lacie ASAP
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I've lost MANY Lacie drives and when I walked up to
the VP of
Marketing for Lacie at Macworld and told him his
answer was, It's
only a matter of time until one of
I've made DVD and HDV Tape back ups as well cause that VP of
Marketing's words keep ringing in my head.
Tim
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Creator/Executive Producer
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i've had bad luck with western digital, consistently, personally.
we also had trouble with them at widehive records a few years ago (like 3
times in a row) and stopped using anything but LaCie.
Haven't seen g-raid before...will consider...but i've had good luck with
lacies i guess (knock on
You do have to keep in mind that hard drives, at least ones most
people can afford at the moment, have lots of moving parts. Those
moving parts are all... well.. moving whenever you access data off
those drives.
No matter what manufacturer you get your drives from it isn't a matter
of if the
If you had bought Seagate drives I could have gotten you help. Sorry.
Robert Scoble
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From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Lisa Rein
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:28 AM
To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [videoblogging] bad
As you have seen in the replies, it's pretty much a crap shoot regarding hard
drives. At work we handle hundreds, if not thousands, of hard drives
regularly. The ones that fail most of the time are LaCie and Seagate even
though we buy primarily Western Digital internal and Maxtor externals.
