The G-Tech and G-Raid drives are very nice, and have seemed reliable in my experience. A bit pricier than typical Western Digital life books and such, but well trusted by the media industry. On the other hand, if you have two empty enclosures, you could just buy a raw Samsung or Western digital black or green hard drive and use it in one of your enclousures. That would give you the best value for money for sure, and you can buy the actual hard disk with the best reputation for your needs.
When you buy a hard drive in an enclosure, from Lacie, G-Tech or anyone else you have no way of knowing what brand of hard disk you will end up with unless you unscrew the thing and look. If you buy your own hard drive and put it in one of your old enclosures you will at least be sure that you are putting something of quality in there. On 20 July 2011 18:29, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Lacie used to be good. Ergo both "my laxie is 100 yrs old, no probs" and > "my new lacie died" are both reasonable. > > From my iPhone > > On 20 Jul 2011, at 13:33, Russell Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > On the other hand, I have two Lacie drives, one 1TB 2 years old which has > been dropped from a six foot height and has a cracked/dented casing and > still maintains stirling (and verified) service and an older 3 year old > 500GB, similarly reliable. > > I remember comments in one camp or the other on previous threads. I have > no loyalty to Lacie, I tend to by what I see as the most cost-effective > choice at the time I need to buy one. These two have been fine. > > Regards > > Russell > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Manor Park Medical Centre > <http://www.manorparksurgery.com>www.manorparksurgery.com > Tel 01323482301 > East Sussex Local Medical Committee (Chair) > <http://www.sslmcs.co.uk/>www.sslmcs.co.uk/ > Tel 01372389270 > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Have your say about NHS market reforms > > Visit <http://www.lookafterournhs.org.uk>www.lookafterournhs.org.uk > > > On 20 July 2011 13:26, Chris Webb < <[email protected]> > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Martin, general rule of thumb is to assume that a hard drive will fail. If >> it's a LaCie drive it will definitely fail. If 500gb is what you need, buy 2 >> and back one up to the other on a weekly/monthly rota. >> >> Personally, I've had the fewest failures with Western Digital drives. >> >> Chris Webb >> MacService >> 07770 960632 >> <[email protected]>[email protected] >> >> On 20 Jul 2011, at 14:06, Martin Douglas < <[email protected]> >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Having just had the second of two LaCie external hard drives die in the >> last few months, I wonder whether anyone would care to make some suggestions >> about a replacement. I need a 500 Gb external drive (but would consider a 1 >> Tb drive) and value reliability above all. Funds are tight so the price >> would need to be reasonable. >> > >> > Martin >> > >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> > To post to this group, send an email to <[email protected]> >> [email protected]. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> <smug%[email protected]>[email protected]. >> > For more options, visit this group at >> <http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB> >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to <[email protected]> >> [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> <smug%[email protected]>[email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> <http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB> >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
