Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/27

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Subject: [Leica] OT - External Hard Drive Advice
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Wed Aug 27 05:36:08 2008
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Aram Langhans <leicar@q.com> wrote:
> What are some good brands of USB external hard drives of 1 TB in size?  I
> had a lot of trouble with Western Digital drives the last few years at
> school.  Many had to be returned as they crashed.  How about Seagate?
> LaCie?  Hitachi?

I've had a lot of trouble with Western Digital the last two years and
will no longer touch them. Their "Book" like disk packages have been
particularly unreliable. Every single one of them that I bought (4 of
them @ 360 gb, I think) quite working within 6 months. It might have
been the Firewire interface giving problems, but I was justing
Firewire so ... it _was_ a problem.

I've had good experiences with just about all other brands: Samsung,
Seagate ..., both under controlled circumstances and in environoments
that are worst case scenarios (High veld Africa with thunder and
lightening storms and constant uncontrolled power failures).

LaCie probably just has something else under the cover.

Daniel
Replies: Reply from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Chris Williams) ([Leica] Re: - External Hard Drive Advice)
 In reply to: Message from leicar at q.com (Aram Langhans) ([Leica] OT - External Hard Drive Advice)