External Hard Drive

[YS2003]

I ordered the 500 GB last week, it should be here today. Hopefully I won't have any of these problems...

I've had one of the LaCie 80GB drives for a couple of years and have had no problems.

EDIT: It's here...I'm going to start a new thread about partitioning it for CCC.

The question is, should I partition the 500 GB to the Carbon Copy my old laptop and new laptop before transitioning them?

So, how do you like your Lacie 500 GB? I like Lacie's design (solid metal) and I have a 100 GB, 160 GB and 250 GB units so far. I am getting Maxtor 300 GB in a few days after I just bought a Seagate 300 GB (my other Maxtor 250 GB is so far performing well quietly). I would like to add another HD and I am eyeing at Lacie's 500 GB. But, I read several negative reviews on the web.

I hope the new Lacie 500 GB units are built more reliably and would last longer.

 

[rjphoto]

So, how do you like your Lacie 500 GB? I like Lacie's design (solid metal) and I have a 100 GB, 160 GB and 250 GB units so far. I am getting Maxtor 300 GB in a few days after I just bought a Seagate 300 GB (my other Maxtor 250 GB is so far performing well quietly). I would like to add another HD and I am eyeing at Lacie's 500 GB. But, I read several negative reviews on the web.

I hope the new Lacie 500 GB units are built more reliably and would last longer.

So far so good. I was able partition it into 6 segments with no problem and I have clone the laptops to their own separate partitions. I wanted to see how booting from it would do so I booted the 12"PB from the 15"Pb's clone. At that point I thought about cloning the 15 to the 12 but I've decided to wait for a few days just to get the bugs out if there are any on the 12 (New RAM and Airport Extreme card added last week.)

I have an 80GB LaCie that says it was created in October 2002, but the oldest files I can find on it are from August 2003. So far it has been a great drive. I used it mainly for large video projects with the old 15"PB (it only has a 10GB internal HD).

I have a 60GB Maxtor sitting around that crashed. It is the only HD that I have had any problems with (not counting the Western Digital 10GB that fell off of my son's desk... it's also the oldest External HD I have.)

Strangely enough, every external I have purchased since 1999 starting with the 10GB WD was in the $300 range. 10GB, 30GB, 40GB, 60GB, 80GB,120GB and now the 500GB (I know, big jump in size this time). Go figure. The cost per GB has come down but the cost of a "new device" has stayed about the same.