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nathanator11 
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Posted 12 March 2010 - 05:12 PM
I've been quite happy with my LaCie Rugged USB/FW drive. It's plenty big, fast, and the durability is nice.
http://www.lacie.com...t.htm?pid=11085
I got one with a bad FW400 port, and they told me to send it in. They repaired my drive for free, under warranty. Now, it's perfect.
Highly recommended!
http://www.lacie.com...t.htm?pid=11085
I got one with a bad FW400 port, and they told me to send it in. They repaired my drive for free, under warranty. Now, it's perfect.
Highly recommended!
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NoSpamMan
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Posted 15 March 2010 - 07:02 AM
I don't understand why USB only drives are reviewed here. The Mac implementation of USB 2.0 is fair at best. Even though it has gotten marginally better with the newer unibody laptops, it's just horribly slow. Does MacWorld believe that Apple is giving up on FireWire because it's missing from one laptop (the white MacBook)? Faster standards are coming, yes, but we really encourage our clients to stick with Firewire even at the higher costs.
Another odd thing was the wild selection of laptop drives here and the absence of the LaCie Rugged series (and a few others). I'd like to see a comprehensive review of all laptop drives. As much as I love WD naked drives, their enclosures have had a very high failure rate in our shop for both desktop and laptop external drives. I would like to see MacWorld do some quiet polling of data recovery services ("quiet" because they're a bit loathe to talk publicly about what they see) and see what drives they see the most of. We refuse to buy Seagate anymore for this very reason, but for all we know, we'll see the the same thing happen to another maker's drives.
Clients want inexpensive, reliable external hard drives that are not easily damaged while traveling, or even a short distance drop or bump. We'd love to see MacWorld really dig in and review the entire range of what is out there, with firewire drives highlighted as the preferred interface.
Thanks!
www.MicksMacs.com
Another odd thing was the wild selection of laptop drives here and the absence of the LaCie Rugged series (and a few others). I'd like to see a comprehensive review of all laptop drives. As much as I love WD naked drives, their enclosures have had a very high failure rate in our shop for both desktop and laptop external drives. I would like to see MacWorld do some quiet polling of data recovery services ("quiet" because they're a bit loathe to talk publicly about what they see) and see what drives they see the most of. We refuse to buy Seagate anymore for this very reason, but for all we know, we'll see the the same thing happen to another maker's drives.
Clients want inexpensive, reliable external hard drives that are not easily damaged while traveling, or even a short distance drop or bump. We'd love to see MacWorld really dig in and review the entire range of what is out there, with firewire drives highlighted as the preferred interface.
Thanks!
www.MicksMacs.com
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