Hi
I'll second Daniel's recommendations...
I got a Sarotech Case from him some time back and teamed it with a WD
Drive
for Audio Recording & Backup Duties....great combo...the Sarotech
cases are impressive...
Cheers
Neil
On 27/10/2007, at 9:16 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote:
Hi All
I'll weigh in on this, seeing as I can help :o)
Western Digital make some great hard drives, and I've been very
happy with
them. There are a few ones to do this:-
A Sarotech Firewire case with a Western Digital Hard Drive in it
(Depending
on size wanted and required.) This come with an internal power
supply, so
uses the "normal" power cable. Great for moving around (and it has
a carry
bag as well). The beauty with these are that you can get into them
to check
things, and change hard drives down the track should you want
something
bigger.
Most WD drives come with either 3 or 5 year warranty now, and the
Sarotech
cases are generally 2 years warranty.
Western Digital also then do there own style drives called MyBook.
Very nice
units ranging from about 320Gb through to 2TB. You can either run
these as
RAID 0 or 1, so most of them can either be the full size drive (eg
2TB) or
mirrored for "double safe" backup (eg 2TB, but shows up as 1TB).
And of course,..my "plug" :o)
Any of the above drives I can supply, so if anyone did want
something by all
means drop me an email and I'm happy to price it up for you.
(Will be next week as I'm away for this weekend after this email) :o)
But, I've been selling Sarotech cases and drives since I started doing
MacWizardry and they are fantastic! One of the reasons I've kept
supplying
them all this time. And now that WD do their own style to
complement this.
it's great!
But that's just my opinion :o)
Hope that helps!
Enjoy!!
Kind Regards
Daniel
On 27/10/2007 9:00 AM, "Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks Edward. Your warning prompted me to go search out some
other product
reviews, eg....
http://www.amazon.com/LaCie-Extreme-External-Interface-300801U/dp/
customer-r
eviews/B000AZFYQ0/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful/002-0167514-1367232?
ie=UTF8&custo
mer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-
SubmissionDate&coliid=&showViewpoints=1&customer-revi
ews.start=1&colid=#customerReviews
..and I've read enough now to put me off of Lacie. Perhaps I'll
rephrase my
original query with 'which company makes the best quality hard
drives' and
then pick a size from there.
Regards, Steven
On 27/10/07 9:03 AM, "Edward Arrowsmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have had bad experiences with LaCie from the pov of the drives and
Mac compatibility and customer service (there is none). The drive
was
one of the Porsche designs - I would advise against them.
I am getting a G-Tech drive for Time Machine: http://
www.provis.com.au/shop/index.php?cPath=69
Best wishes
edward
On 27/10/2007, at 8:33 AM, Steven wrote:
If I decide to upgrade to Leopard, which I guess I will sooner or
later so
it might as well be sooner, then I quite like the idea of Time
Machine. I
have three Macs (MacBook Pro, G4 PowerBook, and a G4 iBook) running
on a
wireless network, plus Apple TV, and historically my back up
solution has
been to manually copy my critical files from one Mac to another
periodically, but inevitably never as frequent as I should because
it's a
pain.
I understand that with Time Machine you need an external hard drive
plugged
into your Mac, but can someone please confirm that Time Machine
will work
just as well with a hard drive plugged into an Airport Extreme Base
Station?
And if I install Leopard on all three Macs, would all of them
automatically
back up to a single hard drive plugged into Airport Extreme via
Time
Machine?
Assuming yes to all of that, is there a clear leader in hard drive
options
based on capacity and value for money? I see at the Apple web site
that in
terms of size consideration alone, the largest seems to be a
LaCie 2
terabyte for A$1,199. But a 2-3 month waiting time?!
<www.dstore.com.au>
seems to have them in stock for $1,062.05 plus $14.95 delivery,
<http://www.digitalyes.com.au> has them for $940.40 plus $15.80
delivery. Is
LaCie a good brand I terms of value for money.
Maybe 2 terabyte is overkill for my purposes and the 1 terabyte
Lacie Big
Disk Extreme option is good, which seems to sell as low as $406. I
would
have thought you get scale economies buying bigger disks, but
seemingly not.
Any thoughts and tips read with interest.
Regards, Steven
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