Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: pflower on June 22, 2009, 06:08:21 am
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Watching the new video on Managing photos I saw that Seth was using portable 1tb drives.
Can anyone point me to any manufacturers. Looking in the UK I can find none of these - 500gb seems to be the extent available here. The only drive I did find on ebay was a Lacie Rugged XL USB/esata drive which doesn't appear to be listed on the Lacie Website and is considerably cheaper than the 500gb versions which is odd. I have had problems with Lacie Rugged USB drives before - they don't draw enough power from some Macbooks (not sure about the Macbook Pro) from the USB port.
I would prefer firewire in any event.
Any suggestions?
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I use an Other World Computing 500 GB firewire portable drive. The web site is http://www.macsales.com/ (http://www.macsales.com/)
Hope this helps
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Does it need to be bus-powered...? I believe the XL line are full-sized 3.5" drives in the rugged packaging, so I don't think that they will be bus-powered. You will need to stick to 2.5"drives & yes, the current size limit is 500GB in that form factor. For info, I am using a 320GB LaCie Rugged with the late 2008 15" MBPro with no power/performance issues. Can you get G-Technology drives in the UK?? The mini is worth a look ( http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive-mini.cfm (http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive-mini.cfm) ) as is their whole line...
Good luck!
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I just got a 2.5" WD Passport Essential. seems to be pretty good.
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I get the owc enclosures. Then I buy 2 identical drives at the same time from the same batch. If one has a problem I can swap out the boards and see if that is the problem and get at my data if something has not been backed up yet.
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Watching the new video on Managing photos I saw that Seth was using portable 1tb drives.
Can anyone point me to any manufacturers. Looking in the UK I can find none of these - 500gb seems to be the extent available here. The only drive I did find on ebay was a Lacie Rugged XL USB/esata drive which doesn't appear to be listed on the Lacie Website and is considerably cheaper than the 500gb versions which is odd. I have had problems with Lacie Rugged USB drives before - they don't draw enough power from some Macbooks (not sure about the Macbook Pro) from the USB port.
I would prefer firewire in any event.
Any suggestions?
Hi,
found this one on the UK Apple Store:
LaCie Little Big Disk Quadra 1 TB mit eSATA/FW/USB
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Western Digital never steered me wrong.
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I like these A LOT.
miniXpress825 S
The SATA is very fast and the 250GB/7200RPM 16mb cache is VERY cheap @ $148.00 USD
http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Category=2643 (http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Category=2643)
Storage up to 500 gb
Ken
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You might also want to consider the Voyager Q (or even a pair of them) and simple cases:
Voyager Q: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/NewerTech/V...Hard_Drive_Dock (http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/NewerTech/Voyager/Hard_Drive_Dock)
Cases: http://www.wiebetech.com/products/cases.php (http://www.wiebetech.com/products/cases.php)
Drives: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822136317 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136317)
Given the current low cost of 1TB drives (you can buy bare WD Green 1TB drives in the States for $89 right now, see link above), I would go to this solution today instead of my DROBO. With the drives so cheap, I would simply do a full back-up of everything onsite, and keep a third redundant back-up set offsite. A pair of the Voyager Q's and a supply of bare drives and storage cases would make this extremely easy and efficient, no RAID device required. The downside is it -- as with any other single drive solution -- requires *you* to be disciplined enough to actually do the back-ups and keep the offsite set current, a non-trivial point IME...
Cheers,