[Leica] OT - External Hard Drive Advice - Thanks

[leicar at q.com (Aram Langhans)]

Thanks one and all for the advice.  Sounds like Seagate is the sensible way
to go, and perhaps less than 1TB for now.

Aram

> From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT - External Hard Drive Advice
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
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> 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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