I’m right where Godders is on this. Numerous drives from different makers, with many of them mounted in Mercury Elite enclosures. I also picked up some empty enclosures with various brand names on them at one of OWC’s garage sales. Those had originally been sold with a drive but had been returned to OWC and disassembled for some reason. Got them for about five bucks apiece and they work fine.
Paul > On Oct 24, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godd...@me.com> wrote: > > Mark, > > I have a hodgepodge of 2T drives bought as bare drives - Hitachi, Seagate, > and Western Digital. All have been working very well with no problems at all. > Most of the drives in the $100-250 price class from major vendors are so > close in reliability, speed, durability, etc, it's a toss up. > > I use the Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.0 & 2.0/FireWire 800/eSATA enclosures > available from Other World Computing. They're fast, easy to work with, > reasonably priced, and very reliable. > > http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB > > Godfrey > >> On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:49 AM, Mark C <pdml-m...@charter.net> wrote: >> >> I'm currently housing my digital images on a couple of external hard drives. >> They are filling up and its getting to be time to upgrade. Are there any >> particular brands to look for or avoid? >> >> I am thinking of getting a couple of 4TB drives, to replace a couple of 3TB >> drives currently in use. I'm currently using two pair of drives with a 3TB >> and 2TB in each pair. Moving from a 3+2 setup to a 4+3 setup will net an >> additional 2TB of storage, which should last for a couple years or so. >> >> I Googled on this and Hitachi came up as making reliable drives. A quick >> search on Amazon did not reveal any Hitachi drives in enclosures, but I >> assume I could buy an enclosure that would support them. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Mark > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
