[zakmac]

Well, my trusty OWC portable firewire hard drive decided to up and die this evening. Now I need to get another one.

Any recommendations? There are Lacie, Smartdisk Firelites, OWCs...what should I get?

[CIA]

Perhaps build your own? I upgraded my bosses Powerbook and he was nice enough to give me the old 20GB drive. I bought a little firewire bus-powered case, bam! instant portable firewire drive.
So for you, if the drive died, maybe the case is still good, try another drive in it. Or, maybe the drive is ok, and the case died?

[subego]

I can vouch for LaCie. I have 4 D2s, a D2 big disk, a Porsche portable and one of their older portables. Never had a problem. Snot exactly the cheapest options out there.

[King_Rat]

The Lacie big / bigger disks are in fact striped RAID arrays (with no parity) of 3.5" drives; the big disks have 2 3.5" drives and the bigger disks have 4 3.5" drives. The point is that they are much more likely to fail than any single external drive setup; if one of the drives in them fails then the entire thing breaks . If you don't need the space I would recommend against getting the Lacie big & bigger disks.

BTW, if you don't want your broken drive I will take it (and any other broken drives that you have).

[subego]

Originally Posted by King_Rat

If you don't need the space I would recommend against getting the Lacie big & bigger disks.

This is probably a good recommendation, even if they weren't prone to breakage



All kidding aside, thanks for the breakdown info.