Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aram, I have the previous generation (7200.10) Seagate Barracudas, and they work very well. I also use Seagate Freeagent external drives, and an homeserver for backups. I just bought a Western Digital 250GB Passport drive for backup during photographic trips. Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>wrote: > LaCie does not manufacture disk drives. They buy disk drives and > manufacture pretty enclosures to put them in. I wouldn't be at all > surprised > to find Seagate disks inside a LaCie enclosure. > > In 2008 there remain only Seagate, Samsung, Western Digital, and Hitachi > making hard drives for desktop computers. Maxtor is now just a Seagate > label, and Hitachi bought IBM's disk business. Toshiba makes laptop drives > and specialty drives, and Fujitsu makes laptop drives and data center > drives. That's pretty much it. > > I don't think this list is ever going to get any longer. Within 5-10 years, > solid-state flash-based devices will have forced hard drives to retreat to > the high end, where they will hang on the way vacuum-tube amplifiers have. > > Once I am convinced that a disk design is good, I buy a lot of them and > then put them in my own enclosures (or not; sometimes I don't use > enclosures). These days I buy only Seagate ST3750630AS SATA 3Gb/s NCQ 750GB > disks. I have at least 12 of them. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >