Mike Ive just bought a Western digital Media centre from www.scan.co.uk for �176 + VAT.
250gb drive Firewire and USB2 connection built in 8 in 1 card reader and usb2 hub with a single press the button back up facility for its bundled Danze Retrospect Express backup software I'm unable to vouch for reliability but WD have an online disk checking facility as well a standalone software for verifying discs and warranty. Whilst I have had WD drives fail,in fact Ive not had a make not fail,they have always given warnings and no data has been lost through not being able to copy to another drive. WD will also send you a drive before you return the defective item. Regards Michael Wilkinson. 106 Holyhead Rd, Ketley, Telford, Shropshire. England .TF1 5DJ 44 (0) 1952 618986. www.infocus-photography.co.uk For Negatives & transparencies from digital files ____________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Russell" > I've not had to buy external drives for a couple of years but I do now, > so I guess I'm out of touch. I've used (until now) extremely reliable > LaCie 40gB drives and would just replace them with whatever the current > model is except I recall LOTS of problems on this list with LaCie > drives, from portables losing data, not being seen by the Macs, > problems with BigDiscs and Jaguar/Panther, and so on. > > Can anyone comment on the current situation, or recommend an > alternative. They're just for medium term data storage, don't need to > be striped, arrayed or ever leave my desktop, but they do need to be > reliable. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
