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Best price+quality/Gig firewire drive

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I recommend the ADS Pyro firewire case (www.adstech.com). It's a little bigger than other cases (because it can also accept CD writers, etc), but the big benefit is that you can put any ol' harddrive you want into it, so you aren't restricted by the case/drive combos out there on the market right now.
 
Uwe Steinmueller said:
Thanks, but my current benchmark is 120GB LaCie for $269.

It probably gets cheaper.
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LaCie also has a new 250 GB for $549. which is $2.20/gig

See this link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=77&e=4&cid=77&u=/mc/20021120/tc_mc/lacie_announces_250gb_firewire_hard_drive

The 120 GB for $269 is $2.25/GB.

Probably does drop a lot more. Also check http://www.apstech . They are owned by LaCie and sell pretty much the same peroduct without the LaCie label usually for about $20 to $40. less.

They are listing one to be available soon at http://www.apstech.com/prod/item.cfm?cat=1&item=1594 for$480 which is $1.92 gig.

I have purchased from APS Tech and been happy with them.

Hope this helps.

Randy
 
Before purchasing one of these new monster hard drives (200GB!), you should think seriously about the possibility of losing that much information.
Not a pretty thought is it?

I would suggest considering a DVD burner before spending that much on a hard drive.
my 2 cents,
Tony M.
http://tmpd.net
 
tony martie said:
Before purchasing one of these new monster hard drives (200GB!),
you should think seriously about the possibility of losing that
much information.
Not a pretty thought is it?
I would suggest considering a DVD burner before spending that much
on a hard drive.
my 2 cents,
Tony M.
http://tmpd.net
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Very soon Fire Wire is coming out with new Fire Wire which will be TWICE as fast as the one on sale at the moment ( in 6 weeks time at a guess).

Also USB 2 is around now,so dont get anything with USB 1.

ALSO make sure that the drive has got the latest Fire Wire AND USB ports at the same time on the hard drive.

Computers can be easly upgraded to the faster drives.

Regards

GR

http://www.pbase.com/digital/tabloidgirls
 
tony martie said:
you should think seriously about the possibility of losing that
much information.
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I always have all images on 2 different physical disks.
tony martie said:
I would suggest considering a DVD burner before spending that much
on a hard drive.
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I have the LaCie. I think HDs might be safer than DVDs?

Uwe
tony martie said:
Before purchasing one of these new monster hard drives (200GB!),
you should think seriously about the possibility of losing that
much information.
Not a pretty thought is it?
I would suggest considering a DVD burner before spending that much
on a hard drive.
my 2 cents,
Tony M.
http://tmpd.net
Click to expand...
 
You might want to just burn to CD-R for low cost storage.

If you need a firewire wire HD, you might want to get a IDE drive and purchase an enclosure. Assembing this yourself is not hard, and you can save money.

If you have space in your PC or Mac, you can add a second IDE drive for even less.
 
I bought ADS I1394 drive kit. Effectively it's a Firewire case with an IDE controller inside that can talk to ANY drive. Then I put a spare 60GB drive in it.

Here is the link:

http://www.adstech.com/products/PYRO1394DriveKit/intro/API800intro.asp?pid=API-800

Bjarne
Timothy said:
Uwe Steinmueller said:
My photos eat up disk space in no time. What is the best
price+quality/Gig firewire drive?

Uwe
http://www.outbackphoto.com/booklets/booklets.html

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Bjarned
 
Thanks:
froggy said:
You might want to just burn to CD-R for low cost storage.
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Not really an option for my data.
froggy said:
If you need a firewire wire HD, you might want to get a IDE drive
and purchase an enclosure. Assembing this yourself is not hard, and
you can save money.
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Will look into this.

Uwe
froggy said:
You might want to just burn to CD-R for low cost storage.

If you need a firewire wire HD, you might want to get a IDE drive
and purchase an enclosure. Assembing this yourself is not hard, and
you can save money.

If you have space in your PC or Mac, you can add a second IDE drive
for even less.
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Hi Uwe,

I have the LaCie 120gb. It's very quick, very sleek and I would recommend them to anybody with Firewire on their PC.

I also have a LaCie 30gb Pocket Drive for portable storage. Excellent. USB and Firewire. NO drivers needed and no need for a poer pack with desktop machines.

As you have guessed I am a bit of a fan of LaCie products. Good quality, well designed and sensibly priced and, no, I don't work for them....

Regards,

Richard
Uwe Steinmueller said:
Member said:
you should think seriously about the possibility of losing that
much information.
Click to expand...
I always have all images on 2 different physical disks.
Member said:
I would suggest considering a DVD burner before spending that much
on a hard drive.
Click to expand...
I have the LaCie. I think HDs might be safer than DVDs?

Uwe
tony martie said:
Before purchasing one of these new monster hard drives (200GB!),
you should think seriously about the possibility of losing that
much information.
Not a pretty thought is it?
I would suggest considering a DVD burner before spending that much
on a hard drive.
my 2 cents,
Tony M.
http://tmpd.net
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firewire enclosures are about $99 at Fry's. Just add that on to whatever you can get a drive for. Assembly is pretty easy

jim
Uwe Steinmueller said:
Member said:
You might want to just burn to CD-R for low cost storage.
Click to expand...
Not really an option for my data.
Member said:
If you need a firewire wire HD, you might want to get a IDE drive
and purchase an enclosure. Assembing this yourself is not hard, and
you can save money.
Click to expand...
Will look into this.

Uwe
froggy said:
You might want to just burn to CD-R for low cost storage.

If you need a firewire wire HD, you might want to get a IDE drive
and purchase an enclosure. Assembing this yourself is not hard, and
you can save money.

If you have space in your PC or Mac, you can add a second IDE drive
for even less.
Click to expand...
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jim collum
http://www.jcollum.com
 
I might go that route.

Uwe
jim collum said:
jim
Uwe Steinmueller said:
jim collum said:
You might want to just burn to CD-R for low cost storage.
Click to expand...
Not really an option for my data.
jim collum said:
If you need a firewire wire HD, you might want to get a IDE drive
and purchase an enclosure. Assembing this yourself is not hard, and
you can save money.
Click to expand...
Will look into this.

Uwe
froggy said:
You might want to just burn to CD-R for low cost storage.

If you need a firewire wire HD, you might want to get a IDE drive
and purchase an enclosure. Assembing this yourself is not hard, and
you can save money.

If you have space in your PC or Mac, you can add a second IDE drive
for even less.
Click to expand...
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Click to expand...
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jim collum
http://www.jcollum.com
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