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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: mcfoto on January 28, 2010, 08:51:01 pm
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Hi
We are going to get another drive & I know WD but has anyone had any experience with Buffalo 320 or 500 GB portable drives? Good or Bad.
Thanks Denis
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I've had a couple of older powered Buffalo drives for about 5 years now, and they're still chugging along - touch wood!
Kumar
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Just had my 2nd crash with a western digital passport drive. (my first one crashed 6 months after I bought it, they sent me a replacement, now it's crashed 3 weeks after I received it. I'd heard so many good things about reliability of WD drives but that definitely has not been my experience.
I've had a couple of older powered Buffalo drives for about 5 years now, and they're still chugging along - touch wood!
Kumar
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Over the years, been very happy with several LaCie drives and customer service.
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G-Tech Mini are awesome (I have three). http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive-mini.cfm (http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive-mini.cfm) They run cool, look great, fast and rock solid. Not at all impressed with the WD I have. Its OK but nothing special.
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G-Tech Mini are awesome (I have three). http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive-mini.cfm (http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive-mini.cfm) They run cool, look great, fast and rock solid. Not at all impressed with the WD I have. Its OK but nothing special.
Ill second that, never had a good experience with WD, now have 3 G-Tech, all rock solid.
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I'll third the vote for G-Tech. They're more expensive but worth the extra, who wants a HD that dies after a few months. WD and all the other cheap drives are pretty poor IMHO, useful to buy if your sending files or video abroad as a one off, but no good for backing up valuable stuff over time. The G-Tech drives come with built in weird Mac only formatting, if your on Windows you need to google around for advice on how to re-format to NTFS.
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The G-Tech drives come with built in weird Mac only formatting, if your on Windows you need to google around for advice on how to re-format to NTFS.
Another happy GTech customer ... on Windows (Vista and 7). I'm pretty sure that I just plugged mine into my Vista laptop and windows recognized it needed formatting ... wasn't a big deal as I recall.
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Another happy GTech customer ... on Windows (Vista and 7). I'm pretty sure that I just plugged mine into my Vista laptop and windows recognized it needed formatting ... wasn't a big deal as I recall.
It happened to me on two different G-Tech drives, they didn't come up under Win XP and were reported as having a GPT Protective Partition, normal formatting tools would not work and I had to run some commands with DISKPART, then all was fine. It's probable that this is not a problem with Vista/W7 but I was using XP at the time.
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LACIE rugged is good for you !
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I also have a Toshiba 320gb 7200rpm 2.5" drive that I like a lot.
http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=Stor...MKxx54GSYSeries (http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=StorageSolutions/PCNotebookHardDrives/MKxx54GSYSeries)
I bought it as an external drive.
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I have a bunch of external drives from OWC, both large powered drives and the smaller bus-powered models. No problems in years of use. (So far.)
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This is rather impressive (although not recommended): http://www.g-technology.com/userstories/mangled/ (http://www.g-technology.com/userstories/mangled/)
Mike.
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all drives fail at some point I found - small drives seem to be worse IMO - rocstor have been terrible. I like lacie rugged.
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I've had a couple of older powered Buffalo drives for about 5 years now, and they're still chugging along - touch wood!
Whenever I do that, this happens:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/God-kills-kitten.jpg)
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I forgot about American slang
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Hi
Thank you all
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I've had a G-drive mini for a year now with no incident but I also have two blue Lacie Rugged that are over 4 years old and two orange Lacie Rugged
that are over 2 years old with not a hint of a problem.
From my experience the portables are a safer bet than the desktops as I've had a raft of Lacies die and out of 4 new 1TB G-Drives have had
two die within weeks of loading them.
Mark
www.marktomalty.com