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G-Drive mini or LaCie Rugged
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I've got a Maxtor OneTouch Mini III - works beautifully; very fast, very reliable, and super sexy looking.
Been Lookin Myself, i would get the G-Drive Mini, or one of these:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go
If you can spare the 289, you can get 16mb of cache! Crazy for a bus powered drive. I can't imagine what a 7,200 does for your battery life tho
The ruggeds looked good as well. Keep us posted what ya get
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go
If you can spare the 289, you can get 16mb of cache! Crazy for a bus powered drive. I can't imagine what a 7,200 does for your battery life tho
The ruggeds looked good as well. Keep us posted what ya get
Been Lookin Myself, i would get the G-Drive Mini, or one of these:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go
If you can spare the 289, you can get 16mb of cache! Crazy for a bus powered drive. I can't imagine what a 7,200 does for your battery life tho
The ruggeds looked good as well. Keep us posted what ya get
Awesome; for me, I've got 99% of my stuff residing on my external drive; the amount of battery power used by it would be negligible; where the battery power gets used up is the extra heat generated and thus the extra time of which the fans must run at high speed.
I have owned two GTech mini's and a G drive for about three years and love them. One is dedicated to Time Machine and the others are for images and studio business materials. The only product that I feel is better are the Wiedenbach drives.
I have some Rugged and a G Tech mini, all of them working nicely.
You get more for your dollar with LaCie, e.g. triple interface in all FW models and more space for the same amount of money.
The G Tech enclosure is stronger and a tad smaller, but probably less shock proof - the Rugged has the rubber bumper, a soft aluminum case and internal rubber suspension.
Mine travel a lot, and get dropped occasionaly, no problem.
The interface and HDD quality should be close or identical, though I don't know what brand each is using.
Oh, and I wouldn't get 160GB, the higher capacities are so close in price these days.
You get more for your dollar with LaCie, e.g. triple interface in all FW models and more space for the same amount of money.
The G Tech enclosure is stronger and a tad smaller, but probably less shock proof - the Rugged has the rubber bumper, a soft aluminum case and internal rubber suspension.
Mine travel a lot, and get dropped occasionaly, no problem.
The interface and HDD quality should be close or identical, though I don't know what brand each is using.
Oh, and I wouldn't get 160GB, the higher capacities are so close in price these days.