At 05:20 PM 8/8/2009, Russell Urquhart wrote:
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 02:04:43PM -0700, Fred Weiner wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Lisa Kleinholz
wrote:
>
> > Any recommendations on external drive makes & models?
> >>
> LaCie. Very high quality. Their web store has a section of reconditioned
Professional photographers and videographers, and the students in our
shop who work with video, look for Hitachi drives in external shells.
They are constantly accessing the drives, much more than the average
computer user. While LaCie gets very high marks on most consumer
review sites, it gets mixed reviews among the aforementioned pros,
again because of the way the pros use them. Their drive of choice is
a G Drive http://www.g-technology.com/Products/g-drive-mini.cfm .
Hitachi also makes boxes for its drives. I too am about to buy
another (my third) external HD. I'm trying to decide between the
G-Drive Mini and the LaCie Rugged. I plan to use it to shag tiffs and
jpegs from various places as I research my next project. At home, I'm
still trying to learn about the Drobo system, which I'm seriously
considering for the kind of backup we are talking about here.
Michael Norman