Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Chris Williams <leicachris@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > I know Lacie does not make their drives but I have 6 Lacie drives, 3 of > them > over 4 yrs old. Never one problem. > > Chris I didn't mean to imply that it would be a problem. For that matter, they might very well place higher demands on products that they outsource than products that they could make themselves. Not making their own disks wasn't meant to imply that they were lower quality. Daniel > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Ridings" Subject: Re: [Leica] OT > - External Hard Drive Advice > > >> 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >