I have had a refurbished LaCie 30gb firewire external harddrive for about 1 year and it works fine and seems quite fast. It works fine with OS 9.22 or OS 10.1.3 Ralph Plumb
On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 04:03 PM, Brian Jones wrote: >> Any recommendations or comments about particular brands? the LaCie >> is an affordable price -- Is it a good product? (I would want an >> external USB model.) Also, there seem to be two kinds of the Lacie >> CD-RW Firwire and USB or USB and SCSI. Is there any difference >> in the quality of the two types? > > I have had a Lacie USB and now I have a Lacie firewire. I had no > problems > with either of them and I burn CDs constantly. The only difference, of > course, is the firewire is much faster and less coasters. The reason I > got > coasters when I first got my Lacie and grape DV, was I was using lousy > cheap > no name blanks, but when I used Lacie CDs, I never had a problem. I > found > with the USB I had to cut back to 2x speed from the max of 4x that I > could > burn. When I did that, the coasters stopped even on the lousy blanks. > With > the burnproof firewire, I have had no problems on any blank, but I try > to > stay with a brand name now. > > Brian Jones > Aruba > > > > -- > The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished > Drives | > - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on > Sale! | > > PowerON Computer Services <http://www.poweron.com> REPLACEMENT PARTS in > STOCK > Drives, CD-ROMs, RAM, Mac OS SW, Power Supply <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | PowerON Computer Services <http://www.poweron.com> REPLACEMENT PARTS in STOCK Drives, CD-ROMs, RAM, Mac OS SW, Power Supply <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
