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Quick responses please (External HDD)

If you're going to bother spending the cash investing in a HDD, wouldn't you want one with the increased speed and straight connectivity of FW800?

Lacie has a great one for mac.

As well as Western Digital.

The speed of these latest 7200 RPM drives is far superior to the bandwith bottleneck that FW400 provides.
 
marioman38 said:
If you're going to bother spending the cash investing in a HDD, wouldn't you want one with the increased speed and straight connectivity of FW800?

Lacie has a great one for mac.

As well as Western Digital.

The speed of these latest 7200 RPM drives is far superior to the bandwith bottleneck that FW400 provides.
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I don't really need that much speed, and I don't want to spend that much. :)

Is the one I posted good?
 
adamvk said:
So I think I'm going to buy this after work tomorrow. Does it look good to everyone? Its firewire 400 but I'm just gonna buy a 400-800 adapter.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3617658&CatId=2423

5 Year warranty parts & labor.
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OWC sells drives that are compatible with FW800. They contain Hitachi drives and I love them. They're well-built and you can upgrade them yourself.

Having said that, I agree that Maxtor isn't the best drive manufacturer. Yes, everyone has drives that fail from time to time, but I would buy a Seagate before I bought a Maxtor. Hitachi are good. WD are good again (they were bad years ago IMO).
 
miles01110 said:
While no hard drive manufacturer has a perfect track record, Maxtors are widely acknowledged to be some of the worst. I don't know if things improved since they were bought out by Seagate, but I've noticed a marked decline in Seagate drives over the past couple years also.
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I'd have to agree with this statement.
 
I had one of the Lacie with USB, Firewire 400/800 since about 2001-2002. It still runs to this day.
It cost me around $400 back in the day, at work we tend to use seagate usb drives which have seemed to last 2-4 years without any problems. Occasional one that dies but nothing an RMA doesn't fix.
 
i will prefer the maxtor because i have this drive so long and till now i have never face any problem.so its a good one drive.
 
Well the average rating on it was 4.5 starts out of 5 on Tiger Direct, and there were countless good reviews about it elsewhere.

So I bought it.

I like it so far, as we speak its backing up. I would post pictures right now but my retarded Mac only has 2 USB ports so I can't because they're all full.
 
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