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

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Subject: [Leica] Re: - External Hard Drive Advice
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Chris Williams)
Date: Wed Aug 27 05:57:19 2008
References: <200808261454.m7QEs8OP053932@server1.waverley.reid.org><BLU121-DS31451FD0760B535C604DAD4660@phx.gbl> <a2f8f4470808270536j6eb37c9di14638841ebca4082@mail.gmail.com>
 
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

----- 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.
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