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Hard Drives
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I just bought the Mercury Elite – AL Pro 800 and Striped it at RAID 1. Having mirrored drives with FireWire 800 was hard to pass up. The prices are great too. We have had 3 Lacie drives die over the last 2 years. 2 of them were relatively new.
Steve Radley
Digitec
Orlando, FL
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[Dr. Crestwood] “Anything but lacie. Almost anyone who tells you lacie drives are reliable is a sales rep for them. “
We had 10 Lacie raids, 500GBs & 1TBs, on a documentary series last year and 75% of them failed. Some even failed twice. They seem to use the cheepest components possible, especially their raid controllers.
I would recommend G-Tech or Sonnet eSATA raids.
cheers,
greg -
[walter biscardi] “Not the LaCie’s or the CalDigit Firewire VR’s, though I would never run more than two of those VR’s in a single chain.”
AH. Cause I knew that my Older G-Raids were fine to Daisy Chain, and my Firewire VR was fine. Didn’t know LaCie fixed that too.
Nice. More options the better.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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The problem with the LaCie drives seems to be when sharing/shuttling them between systems. That is a reasonable requirment for a firewire drive I think. I have 2 LaCie 500s on my G5 that get a lot of use and have never falterred. That said, they have never touched another machine. Clients who have purchased LaCie drives in the past and my soubnd editor have had a 100% failure rate in either the drive or the housing. True they have moved them from machine to machine, but as I said, “Isn’t that the point of an external drive.” G-Tech (older ones) have been reliable for me. I travel with a GRAID in my laptop set up and although occassionally sluggish with the laptop I have had no problems moving that drive from machine to machine.
Best of luck with the new drive and let us know how it works out for you.
eric grush
halo arts media entertainment -
Hi,
I’ve owned two g raid 800 for 2 and half years now and
drazen
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