What do people think of this harddrive

[squizza]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467198433&pf_rd_i=468294

It will probably be used once a day, never carried about anywhere and will sit on a secure desk out of the way of falling objects! I don't mind about the lack of firewire.

I have a lacie which is filled, but heard that lacie are bad! So was wondering on your thoughts on this one.

Cheers!

 

[ppp]

From my experience Seagate have always been good drives seems like a good product but don't have personal experience of that specific seagate model

 

[squizza]

From my experience Seagate have always been good drives seems like a good product but don't have personal experience of that specific seagate model

Thankyou

 

[bindex]

Seagate are OK, I've used plenty of them in the past without feeling there was anything either good or bad about them. I know it sounds pretty pessimistic, but as far as hard drives go, always assume it's going to peg out in the very near future. Honestly I'm usually quite optimistic about life in general, just not with hard drives

I've got a couple of LaCies which have been fine too, I was surprised that you thought they were bad?

I only use mine for data backup and they're switched off totally apart from when they're actually in use. I couldn't see much point in having them spinning away all the time for nothing. I would suggest you buy two though, one for immediate use when you want it, and one off-site, and rotate them weekly. I know it doubles the cost, but the chances of two going bad at once are fairly remote. And provided they're not in the same location it's not a total disaster if you get one nicked either.

cheers

 

[Craikeybaby]

I've never heard anything bad about LaCie either, all of the ones I've used have been reliable, hence I've stuck with them.

 

[neil_g]

for that sort of price id say get two and sync them. 1TB data is a lot to lose if it fails..

but i run seagate external drives and (touch wood) no issues here

 

[andrewc]

I've never heard anything bad about LaCie either, all of the ones I've used have been reliable, hence I've stuck with them.

I've had two portable Lacie external hard drives die. One was replaced under warranty and its replacement failed shortly after the warranty was up. In the end I got a Icybox enclosure and gutted the Lacie. Turns out it was the sata to USB controller dongle that had failed.

 

[soliberus]

Have a look at this:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/352816/seagate-hard-disks-suffer-from-click-of-death

 

[neil_g]

thats a little scaremoungering to be honest, all disks do a click of death before they die lol

 

[Glenn Surtees]

I've had two portable Lacie external hard drives die.

My La Cie died too, a complete waste of money. I use Western Digital and Toshiba now, without any problems.

 

[andrewc]

My La Cie died too, a complete waste of money. I use Western Digital and Toshiba now, without any problems.

Inside my LaCie lurked a Hitachi drive. I think the weakness of any of these external drives is the drive to USB interface and if you ever get a drive fail its work sticking it in an enclosure of some sort and seeing if its the drive that has borked or the controller. At least you stand a chance of recovering your data.