Luminous Landscape Forum

Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: billy on October 20, 2007, 07:51:05 pm

Title: external drives / firewire powered
Post by: billy on October 20, 2007, 07:51:05 pm

i was about to buy Five Lacie Rugged portable hard drives to deliver jobs on, but too expensive. does anyone know a good drive for this? it needs to be easy for both Pc/Mac users, and only need to be 40-100gb.

Title: external drives / firewire powered
Post by: gibbsphoto on October 20, 2007, 10:16:43 pm

Have you looked at the Western Digital Passport Drives? I use the 80GB for job delivery. They can be had for around $80 with free shipping on buy.com. Have had no problems with them and clients seem to like them.

Title: external drives / firewire powered
Post by: Wayne Fox on November 07, 2007, 05:06:47 am

Quote

Have you looked at the Western Digital Passport Drives? I use the 80GB for job delivery. They can be had for around $80 with free shipping on buy.com. Have had no problems with them and clients seem to like them.
[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=147524\")

I believe the passport drives are USB?

I just purchased some OWC portable FW drives.  I like how the case is made with a heat sink on the bottom.  I bought the 200gig FW/800 7200 rpm version ... very nice.

They have many sizes and speeds ... with 40gigs under $100.  

Here's a link

[a href=\"http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go]http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go[/url]

Title: external drives / firewire powered
Post by: tomrock on November 07, 2007, 08:37:49 am

I have several of those OWC cases, also. You can put a business card inside the clear case when you use them for delivery to clients.