• Adobe After Effects

  Good External Hard Drives

  Posted by Scott O’hara on September 16, 2012 at 9:39 pm

  Hey all,

  So I have been working a lot with AE and other software, such as FCP, etc. etc. I bought LaCie because I thought it was a good brand. But recently my hard drive, which is like 5 or 6 months old, crashed, for no reason. I didn’t drop it or anything. Just stopped working and I lost all my files… I’ve also come across several friends who’ve had the same issues with LaCie.

  Is there a better drive to use with all the saves and rendering that goes with AE and other programs, or is LaCie it? Obviously I’m looking for something reasonably priced. I think my LaCie new was $200-$300 dollars. It was 1TB.

  Thanks
  Scott

  Walter Soyka replied 13 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Koffi alain Sessi

  September 16, 2012 at 10:49 pm

  Hi Scott,

  Try Western Digital. I have been using them for quite some time. The first drive I bought 6 years ago is still going strong.

  Cheers.

  Alain Koffi Sessi
  Sound Designer
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  Walter Soyka

  September 17, 2012 at 8:27 pm

  All hard drives die. It is a matter of when, not if.

  I had liked Seagate (prior to their bad run a couple years ago) and Hitachi (prior to being bought out by Western Digital). I’m not sure if it really matters anymore — there are only three hard drive manufacturers left [link].

  Some external drive failures are not actually drive failures; they are enclosure failures. Disassembling the enclosure (voiding your warranty), removing the drive, and placing it in a new enclosure may make it usable again.

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