Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There is a very attractively priced WD MyBook Pro or some such in the shops here--an enclosure with FW400/800 (as well as USB) and two 1 TB drives inside which can be configured as RAID 0 or 1. I am seriously thinking about picking one up and using it as the working drive for my images, configured as RAID 1 (backup to other drives that will not be on except when writing to them). Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Aug 27, 2008, at 2:42 AM, Brian Reid 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