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From: Andy Hewitt on 30 Sep 2009 11:56 Tim Hodgson <thnews(a)poboxmolar.com.invalid> wrote: > What's the current opinion on these, other than "stay away from LaCie"? > > Looking for a 1TB 3.5" drive + enclosure, that spins down and up > properly on sleep and wake. Quiet is good. > > Are the Western Digital Mybooks a safe bet? Any others worth a look? Just to add my 2� worth. I prefer to build my own external drives, as I like to know what drive unit went in it. Based on advice here and other places, and in some cases my own experience, I avoid Maxtors and WD destop units (I've had Maxtors die on me, and go noisy). I have had reliable use from Seagate and Hitachi drive units. It just seems hard to find out what drives have been fitted into some external cases in the ready-to-run boxes. The enclosures I choose carefully too. I prefer Firewire, especially for a drive that stores data I use, such as my Aperture library, due to its far better data transfer rate. I also look for genuine Oxford chipsets, as these seem to be better for making a bootable backup drive. My current setup is actually a collection of drives, connected by Firewire using the FW-SATA bridge adapters sold by Span.com, and all mounted in an old PC tower case. They work well enough, and I can hear the Time Machine drive spinning up and down as backups are done. -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: T i m on 30 Sep 2009 12:54 On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:56:23 +0100, thewildrover(a)me.com (Andy Hewitt) wrote: >I have had reliable use from Seagate and Hitachi drive units. I fitted a pair of Seagate 1.5TB drives inside my mates PC today (RAID1). They seemed pretty quiet n smooth. That's all. ;-) T i m
From: Chris Ridd on 30 Sep 2009 14:38 On 2009-09-30 19:31:59 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:04:19 +0100, thnews(a)poboxmolar.com.invalid (Tim > Hodgson) wrote: > >> Did you mean Scan, rather than Span? I had an idea that one was ok, the >> other not, and that span was the ok one. > > Yep - I always have to check myself. http://www.span.com/ it is. Span is short for "worldspan", which is kind of how I remember. That and they're the other side of Kingston to me so handy in an emergency. -- Chris
From: zoara on 30 Sep 2009 19:27 David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > Tim Hodgson wrote: > > What's the current opinion on these, other than "stay away from > > LaCie"? > > > > Looking for a 1TB 3.5" drive + enclosure, that spins down and up > > properly on sleep and wake. Quiet is good. > > > > Are the Western Digital Mybooks a safe bet? Any others worth a look? > > > > 2 LaCie here; the first - 80gig - is four years old and trouble free, > the second - 500gig - 2 years old and also without fault. The only problem I have ever had with a LaCie is with a Porsche drive that had a relatively loud seek. But I'm oversensitive to that stuff; the friend I sold it to has declared it fine. Aside from seek, it was quiet, fast and trouble-free. So was the recently eBayed LaCie d2. I have my suspicions that LaCie's bad rep is out of proportion to its actual reliability. -zoara- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 30 Sep 2009 19:27
Tim Hodgson <thnews(a)poboxmolar.com.invalid> wrote: > Are the Western Digital Mybooks a safe bet? Yup. > Any others worth a look? Possibly. The MyBook I had was good enough not to look any further; I would have bought another if I didn't go down the Drobo route instead. Actually, the Drobo is mainly populated with WD drives, as the green ones (which I think they use in the MyBooks) are low power and quiet. -zoara- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm |