Thank The Cheese said:I've gone off LaCie a bit.
I had a LaCie porche 160GB ext. drive that died about 6 months after purchase. There's a thread in this forum where a couple people (including myself) reported having the same experience.
The HDD itself was fine, but the enclosure just stopped working.
Thing is, too, that if you buy a pre-built extenral disk you have no control over the brand of HDD that goes into it, or the quality of the case. I would recommend buying each seperately; say, a Western Digital HD and a good quality Firewire/USB2 case. Personally I like the IceCube II
The Porsche drives aren't worth squat IMO...a lot of people have reported issues with those models. I'd definitely recommend to anyone spending the money on one that they spend the small bit extra for the D2 series drives.Thank The Cheese said:I had a LaCie porche 160GB ext. drive that died about 6 months after purchase.
Five years out of a drive like that (CD/DVD) isn't bad at all really. They see a totally different kind of use than a HD does, not to mention they much more prone to the ravages of dirt and other contaminants from normal use.adambyte said:We also had a LaCie CD-RW external drive that, after 5 years, just stopped reading discs.
Especially when building your own drive means sliding an HD onto a circuit board, inserting four screws and then maybe a couple more screws to close the enclosure.Thank The Cheese said:I just think building your own external drive is the best way of making sure you won't have any problems.