Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/26

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Subject: [Leica] OT - External Hard Drive Advice
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Tue Aug 26 17:42:25 2008
References: <200808261454.m7QEs8OP053932@server1.waverley.reid.org> <BLU121-DS31451FD0760B535C604DAD4660@phx.gbl> <200808262312.AWK15490@rg5.comporium.net>

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.



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