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 drive will fail, but when. Anyone that tells you differently is flat out lying. Solid state memory is changing all of that, but it is still very very expensive and doesn't come in capacities that DV require. That being said I've been very happy with my WD drives. On Nov 13, 2007 12:28 PM, Lisa Rein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 metal) > > lisa > > > > I've made DVD and HDV Tape back ups as well cause that VP of > > Marketing's words keep ringing in my head. > > > > Tim > > > > Tim Street > > Creator/Executive Producer > > French Maid TV > > The Viral Video of "How To's" by French Maids > > http://frenchmaidtv.com > > Subscribe for FREE at: http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes > > > > MY BLOG: http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Nov 13, 2007, at 9:16 AM, John Coffey wrote: > > > >> 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 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 have 25 G-Tech drives. The other day I thought one > >> > of them had gone > >> > down on me but then I noticed it wasn't plugged in > >> > to the AC outlet. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > Tim > >> > > >> > Tim Street > >> > Creator/Executive Producer > >> > French Maid TV > >> > The Viral Video of "How To's" by French Maids > >> > http://frenchmaidtv.com > >> > Subscribe for FREE at: > >> > http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes > >> > > >> > MY BLOG: http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/ > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On Nov 13, 2007, at 7:22 AM, John Coffey wrote: > >> > > >> > > I think I read either here or on Twitter that Bill > >> > > Streeter had 3 harddrives go bad last week. I'm > >> > > starting to find that my Western Digital WD HD's > >> > don't > >> > > show up on the desktop. And one of them had smoke > >> > > coming out like a toaster. Any other thoughts on > >> > these > >> > > "always on sale at Best Buy" clunkers. I'm gonna > >> > spend > >> > > the $ on reliable LaCie. > >> > > John > >> > > > >> > > Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, > >> > Travel, Craic and > >> > > Cocktails www.jchtv.com > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> __________________________________________________________ > >> > > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > >> > > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > [Non-text portions of this message have been > >> > removed] > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > Yahoo! Groups Links > >> > > >> > > >> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and > >> Cocktails www.jchtv.com > >> > >> __________________________________________________________ > >> Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you > >> with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now.http://mobile.yahoo.com/ > >> sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ > >> > >> > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > Lisa Rein > > http://onlisareinsradar.com > http://www.lisarein.com > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Scott McNulty I blog: http://blog.blankbaby.com http://www.forkyou.tv http://www.tuaw.com
