[MacDV] External hard drive for video work

[Brett Conlon]

Hiya Allan,

I had this comment from our Company IT specialist:

"LaCie appear to be the main supporters of the Firewire 800 interface, but 
unfortunately they have an absolutely dreadful reputation for reliability, 
mainly due to faulty IDE bridge design from what I can tell, but also they 
have very poor cooling that wouldn't help. The web is awash with angry 
customers that are fuming over all the lost data. eg check out Amazon.com 
where they get a one star rating. When I bought mine the cheapest local 
vendor was www.epowermac.com.au, but ended up getting it off the shelf 
from Harris Technology (www.ht.com.au) for a few bucks more. It was 
replaced twice due to failures (and total loss of data) before I gave up 
and demanded my money back. There has been a firmware upgrade since then 
but a friend of mine is still having trouble with theirs even with that 
"fix". Another colleague has got one that failed too.
My advice is stay well away from them if you value your data."

Coj






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Odd isn't it. I use 4 Lacie 800/400 at home and service a couple of 
labs with over 25 4oo Lacie drives between them. No problem at all.

Allan Johns


On 4 Dec 2006, at 00:38, Neil Poese wrote:

> Brett,
>
> I've used a variety of external FW400 drives over the years in my 
> high school Mac video lab. My most recent drives are a G-Drive 
> bought from B&H and a Promax drive. Both of them have been great 
> and seem to run cool. Absolutely stay away from LaCie.
>
> Neil Poese