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eSATA hard drive for MacBook Pro
Well, my LaCie Firewire 800 drive just bit the dust after two years. Time for a new drive.
I’m thinking, since my 15″ MBP doesn’t have a FW 800 port and I’d have to get an expresscard for it anyway, that I should go the eSATA route. At first I’ll just be getting a single drive, with RAID possibilities down the road (DV for now, HD of some flavor in the future).
Anyone have any experience with Other World Computing? I’ve heard good things.
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEAQ7500GB16/
Any alternative suggestions are appreciated, as is advice–I’m fairly new to the Mac/FCP side of things. Best,
R
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9 Replies
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G-Drive Q by G-Technology (makers of the G-Raid). It has a QUAD interface: USB 2.0, FW400, FW800 and eSATA.
Covers all your bases.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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I have more than 4 terabytes of storage space and associated Firmtek hardware from Other World. A couple of the drives came through with problems and they replaced them immediately… which is quicker than quick.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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Wiebetech, OWC or G-Technologies!
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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How about sending your Drive back to LaCie to have it replaced. The warranty should be at least 3 years.
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Most LaCie drives only have a one year warraty BUT its worth the shot to check it out.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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Wow. I’m pretty sure most drives came with 2 in the past and I’ve seen more and more drives come with 3 and 5.
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I think LaCie has started offering this somewhat recently.
I bring this up because I have a few drives that are about three years old that have died and they only have a one year warranty on them. They were the original D2 drives, not the newer three port drives. These only had fw400 on them. And the Porsche drives only have a one year on them.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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LaCie does not actually make the physical drives, they make raid arrays and drives in enclosures. Most of their products are a couple of name brand drives (used to be maxtor, not sure what they are using now) raided together and put into a nice little box with various interfaces. So although the actual drives inside may have a longer warranty, LaCie only has a 1 year warranty on most of their products, because it is usually the internal electronics (raid controller, usb or firewire interface, drive bridge, etc.) that fails first, not the actual drives. They will repair drives outside of warranty for a cost, so that may be worth checking into. We have an older Bigger Disk 1TB drive that failed on us after a couple of months, they repaired it under warranty and it’s been working hard with no problems for the last 2 years.
best regards,
jeremy
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Thanks all, I will definitely look into the warranty, but I’m not optimistic.
I’m assuming when it comes to eSATA expresscards that one is as good as another (Firmtek, NitroAV, Sonnet…)?
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