External hard drive recommendation

felixgash · Post by **felixgash** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 4:29 pm

They're siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick.

Get the 320gb. Serious on the move action.

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:46 pm

sorry, didn't mean to cause any panic or alarm - we've had a number of the terabyte mybooks mysteriously die at work. they'll still be working, and writable-to, but all the data that was previously on them will have mysteriously disappeared. anything written to them after that will fuck off as well after a couple of connect/ejects.

two of them just died outright and wouldn't show up on either a windows or a linux box.

had a scoot around online (which we really should've done before buying so many of the fuckers) and they're prone to this a fair bit apparently.

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:50 pm

I read somewhere, a while back WD make their parts in a new place or something and they're not as reliable as they once were but that might just be on a certain model - and was about a year, year half ago.

theevilgirl · Post by **theevilgirl** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 3:30 pm

LaCie!!!

automat3000 · Post by **automat3000** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:52 pm

I got one of these a while ago:

If you've got any spare HDDs lying about that are big enough, it's the best option at only about £12 i think. Even if you haven't get one anyway and choose the best HDD yourself. It works out about the same price and you can swap drives out when you want (can you do this with the external HDDs? I'm not sure.)

mr jangle · Post by **mr jangle** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:02 am

TheEvilGirl wrote:LaCie!!!

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=11007

just got one of these

automat3000 · Post by **automat3000** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:33 am

mr jangle wrote:
TheEvilGirl wrote:LaCie!!!
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=11007

just got one of these

What the fuck is that? Did someone puke over it?

reference · Post by **reference** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:39 pm

external hard drive, just did me hassle in the end, power connector broke on the back, so ripped the tnuc out and put it in my pc, instead of risking losing all my 140gb+ music, that i spent a lot of time collecting. best bet is to upgrade your hard drive, and back your most important up on a 32gb usb stick or something, externals are a hassle thing to carry about.

mr jangle · Post by **mr jangle** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:59 pm

automat3000 wrote:
mr jangle wrote:
TheEvilGirl wrote:LaCie!!!
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=11007

just got one of these
What the fuck is that? Did someone puke over it?

it's gold mate, maybe you just cant handle the g-ness?

whineo · Post by **whineo** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:06 pm

Any one recommend a decent Firewire 800 external hd?

wubstep · Post by **wubstep** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:39 pm

Meant to be getting one of these for xmas, need recommendation.

Want around 500gb (under or over), though I'm planning on dumping all my music on it, and playing directly from there. So it needs to be reliable.

Will it be laggy through iTunes or anything? I've only got a USB1, possibly firewire? No idea.

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