On 20/05/2009, at 2:53 PM, Toby Oldham wrote:
Hey all - some more external drive experiences/thoughts:
- Cheap unknown-ish Firewire cases have given me grief in the past;
if you're serious about what you want to do, really think about the
'you get what you pay for' cliché.
- Restoring my 250Gig Operating System (and files) to an Intel iMac
from a Time Machine designated backup drive (in this case a Seagate
Free Agent 'Desk') via USB 2.0 took about 12 hours. The same process
on a good Firewire 400 drive took about 1 hour. I think that USB 2.0
is fine to use for backups, provided you're not in any hurry to get
back up and running after a total system meltdown.
It's worth noting that the total time can balloon out considerably
if a single error message pops up during the process; say if a text
file doesn't like being copied. Then 12 hours becomes a couple of
days and some disrupted sleep, as opposed to 2 hours.
- The Seagate FreeAgent external drive I use goes to sleep when my
iMac goes to sleep and wakes when the iMac wakes. It even shuts down
(I think, or goes back to sleep at least) when the iMac shuts down.
Using it with Apple's Time Machine software effectively makes it
invisible to me, which is awesome. I have a friend with a firewire
notebook drive that doesn't turn off when his iMac goes to sleep (or
when it shuts down), which means he has to plug and unplug it all
the time. Not so awesome.
He uses it as a storage device for video editing though, so he puts
up with it for the sustained fast-transfer speeds.
Anyone know if the new(ish) LaCie Network drives are any good? I'm
looking at:
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=11089
... At the moment. I know LaCie had some pretty bad failure rates
back in 2007.
Cheers,
T.
The American Power supplies are causing plenty of grief . I don't
know whther the Australian ones are the same !
You should read all of this link before you buy lacie
<http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/harddrives/>
Bob
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Daniel Kerr
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:43 PM
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Subject: Re: Drives
Hi Tony
Yes, if you're going to use it for storing and editing, and have
Firewire, go that way. Firewire works on straight transfer, whereas
USB works on "burst" information, so it goes up and down in waves.
(kinda). So it's generally slower for large data. I've always found
Firewire walks all over USB. And Firewire800 is faster again.
So yes, my recommendation would be Firewire for any editing type
application. Also making sure it's not formatted DOS. Had a person
have trouble trying to edit to a drive and it was due to the format.
Reformat the drive to Mac and it worked perfectly.
Hope that helps.
Kind Regards
Daniel
On 20/5/09 1:39 PM, "Evers" <ev...@bbnet.com.au> wrote:
I have a WD Elements 1TB USB 2.0 on a 2 GHz 1.5 GB Intel iMac 10.5.6
and it has worked seamlessly for a year - no tricky reformatting,
just
plug, disk utility (2 partitions), & use. Always mounts, always
available, always responsive.
However I am about to get another 1TB drive specifically for storing
iMovie files for later editing/compilation - I'm gathering from the
comments that a Firewire drive might be more stable for all the video
traffic?
Cheers,
Tony
On 20/05/2009, at 1:30 PM, mince and pud wrote:
Hi Ken
Was the WD you bought a firewire? I hear that's best for the mac. My
maxtor 500gb is firewire and just plugged in and worked
best
Alastair
On 20 May 2009, at 06:23, Ken Jackson wrote:
Thanks Brian, I'm running 10.4.11 on a Power Mac G5. It wasn't a
good result for me. Should it be any different on an Intel model?
regards,
Ken
On 20/05/2009, at 1:14 PM, Brian Scott wrote:
Hi,
Daniel Kerr supplied me with a WD My Book a while ago and it has
worked flawlessly since I formatted it using the GUID option on my
intel iMac. I don't remember having to use any software from WD.
Just formatted it with Disk Utility.
Cheers
Brian Scott
On 20/05/2009, at 12:57 PM, Ken Jackson wrote:
Hi everyone,
any recommendations for a 1TB hard drive that is readily
compatible with Mac & no need for extra instal procedures?
Officeworks have a 1TB Western Digital but they really don't work
with Mac. it was $179 @ the time but now $219.
I bought one a few months back (My Book or something similar) &
it
just did not work without downloading a heap of stuff from their
site.
Also an internal 500 gig is needed. Is it PLE computers in
Wangarra? Roger mentioned them as a possible source.
thanks folks,
Ken
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