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Subject: [Leica] OT - External Hard Drive Advice
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue Aug 26 18:58:17 2008
References: <200808261454.m7QEs8OP053932@server1.waverley.reid.org> <BLU121-DS31451FD0760B535C604DAD4660@phx.gbl> <200808262312.AWK15490@rg5.comporium.net> <0A12D91E6F73E29331298B75@hindolveston.reid.org>

Aram,
I have the previous generation (7200.10) Seagate Barracudas, and they work
very well. I also use Seagate Freeagent external drives, and an homeserver
for backups. I just bought a Western Digital 250GB Passport drive for backup
during photographic trips.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Brian Reid 
<reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>wrote:

> LaCie does not manufacture disk drives. They buy disk drives and
> manufacture pretty enclosures to put them in. I wouldn't be at all 
> surprised
> to find Seagate disks inside a LaCie enclosure.
>
> In 2008 there remain only Seagate, Samsung, Western Digital, and Hitachi
> making hard drives for desktop computers. Maxtor is now just a Seagate
> label, and Hitachi bought IBM's disk business. Toshiba makes laptop drives
> and specialty drives, and Fujitsu makes laptop drives and data center
> drives. That's pretty much it.
>
> I don't think this list is ever going to get any longer. Within 5-10 years,
> solid-state flash-based devices will have forced hard drives to retreat to
> the high end, where they will hang on the way vacuum-tube amplifiers have.
>
> Once I am convinced that a disk design is good, I buy a lot of them and
> then put them in my own enclosures (or not; sometimes I don't use
> enclosures). These days I buy only Seagate ST3750630AS SATA 3Gb/s NCQ 750GB
> disks. I have at least 12 of them.
>
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from leicar at q.com (Aram Langhans) ([Leica] OT - External Hard Drive Advice)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] OT - External Hard Drive Advice)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] OT - External Hard Drive Advice)