which best External Hard drive with 800/400firewire

[deafanimator]

I do have new Macbook Pro that I will soon purchase Final Cut Pro Studio. I am considering to purchase 1 TB external hard drive that will have 800/400/fire wires. I think three best brand are G-Drive, La Cie or OWC Mecury. Which one you like and why? I am looking portable and able to use for HD/SD video editing. Any help will be appericated.

 

[r.j.s]

I vote for the G-Raid.

I've never had any problems with 5 of them, but every LaCie I've come across has died.

 

[deafanimator]

WOW.. G-tech sounds better and reilable.

 

[romanaz]

I vote for the G-Raid.

I've never had any problems with 5 of them, but every LaCie I've come across has died.

I'll toss in a counter example, I got 3 LaCie's and have not had a problem with any of them, and most of my friends in video use LaCie or G-Tech. Both are good, as long as they use an aluminum case you should be good (I know LaCie makes some with plastic cases, I would avoid them IMO).

I've been running a LaCie d2 Quadra 1TB which has fw400/800, eSATA and USB so its got all my bases covered. I really like it, good drive for the money, G-Tech seems to run a bit more, but probably worth it.

IMO go with what you can afford from the LaCie or G-Tech camp.

 

[Courtaj]

Look what I found 10 threads south of yours: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/623764/

 

[Rizvi1]

I do have new Macbook Pro that I will soon purchase Final Cut Pro Studio. I am considering to purchase 1 TB external hard drive that will have 800/400/fire wires. I think three best brand are G-Drive, La Cie or OWC Mecury. Which one you like and why? I am looking portable and able to use for HD/SD video editing. Any help will be appericated.

Wait, can you find an external HD w/ 400/800 FW which is also portable?

 

[DPA]

Wait, can you find an external HD w/ 400/800 FW which is also portable?

Up to how big do you consider portable?

David

 

[r.j.s]

Up to how big do you consider portable?

David

I'd consider it portable if it didn't need to be plugged into the wall, but that's just me.

 

[DPA]

Well, I would say that's pretty portable! I meant more along the lines of size. But, here's one, here's another, here's some more.

David

 

[r.j.s]

Well, I would say that's pretty portable! I meant more along the lines of size.

David

Like I said, that's just me. The OP may have a different definition of portable.

 

[Rizvi1]

I'd consider it portable if it didn't need to be plugged into the wall, but that's just me.

right, that's what I meant.

 

[diazj3]

LaCie D2 Quadra

I've been running the 1TB LaCie D2 quadra daisychained to a 500GB LaCie D2 quadra via FW800- both of them for over 6 months: no problems whatsoever so far. It's a fast setup and quite silent.