advice needed for externalm hard drive

[AeroBar]

Hi,

I'm buying a 1 TB external hard drive (firewire 400 are the only firewire ports I have). I will be using it to store photos and music. I will need iPhoto and iTunes to access them quickly.

I was considering this one :- http://store.apple.com/ie/product/TP441VC/A?fnode=MTY1NDA0Nw&mco=MjE1NzYwMg&p=2&s=topSellers

Anyone got good or bad things to say about it?

Cheers.

 

[mankar4]

you are being heavily overcharged by buying it directly from apple.

 

[Consultant]

google:
External Harddrive site:forums.macrumors.com

Over seventeen thousand hits.

 

[AeroBar]

you are being heavily overcharged by buying it directly from apple.

Yes it is much cheaper everywhere else, but it was a trustworthy link to use.

 

[arthursiew]

Personally, I like building my own hard drives. They're cheaper and you can choose your own brand. You can get more reliable ones like buying WD or Seagate ones.

 

[claimed4all]

Seems pricy, I was at Costco, not sure if you have those, and they had the MyBook with firewire in black, 1tb for around 140$.

 

[johndavidwright]

Personally, I like building my own hard drives. They're cheaper and you can choose your own brand. You can get more reliable ones like buying WD or Seagate ones.

i heard seagate drives were crap. WD is ok. they have a tendency to crash if you use them a bunch. go with maxtor or lacie.

 

[SaSaSushi]

i heard seagate drives were crap. WD is ok. they have a tendency to crash if you use them a bunch. go with maxtor or lacie.

"I heard seagate drives were crap" with absolutely no personal experience or examples is a really helpful comment. There have been issues reported with some 1TB and larger Seagate Barracuda HDs but I have a 1.5TB with the latest (fixed) firmware in an Icy Dock FW800 enclosure and have had zero issues.

Western Digital, Samsung and Maxtor are also all fine options.

Since when does Lacie make hard disks?

 

[AeroBar]

i heard seagate drives were crap. WD is ok. they have a tendency to crash if you use them a bunch. go with maxtor or lacie.

Actually lacie and maxtor drives have caused horror stories in this family. I'll never buy them again.

 

[miles01110]

i heard seagate drives were crap. WD is ok. they have a tendency to crash if you use them a bunch. go with maxtor or lacie.

"I heard seagate drives were crap" with absolutely no personal experience or examples is a really helpful comment. There have been issues reported with some 1TB and larger Seagate Barracuda HDs but I have a 1.5TB with the latest (fixed) firmware in an Icy Dock FW800 enclosure and have had zero issues.

Western Digital, Samsung and Maxtor are also all fine options.

Since when does Lacie make hard disks?

LaCie doesn't make hard disks- they make the enclosures with "designed by Porsche" stamped into them and usually contain cheap, unreliable Maxtor drives.

I've had exactly one Seagate drive out of around two dozen fail totally on me, and even then they replaced it under the warranty with no hassle. Western digitals I don't use personally, but the rather large storage network we have at work is a combination of WD/Seagate, and they've been very reliable. I would say johndavidwright doesn't know what he is talking about- go with Seagate or WD.

 

[AeroBar]

I've had exactly one Seagate drive out of around two dozen fail totally on me, and even then they replaced it under the warranty with no hassle. Western digitals I don't use personally, but the rather large storage network we have at work is a combination of WD/Seagate, and they've been very reliable. I would say johndavidwright doesn't know what he is talking about- go with Seagate or WD.

Thanks.