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LaCie Pocketdrive -- opinions?
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I am most likely buying both the 20GB Firewire HD and Firewire CDRW PocketDrives from LaCie (via Outpost). Seemed like the best choice for me, being portable and reliable.
Any opinions out there on these peripherals? I know I am paying a higher price for portability and durability, so don't bother with that argument 
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iPod might be a good alternative to the hard drive.
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Might? Yeah, the thought crossed my mind. I think I can do a lot more with the pocketdrives, and they do seem more durable.
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I have a 10 LaCie Pocketdrive, works flawlessly, I just plug in the firewire cable and it shows up on the desktop. It is a pretty simple device (i took mine apart, I am going to put a 20g HD inside of mine once I replace my Powerbooks HD), just a laptop drive with a circuit board with a rubber bumper around the edges.
I wouldn't worry too much about the durability of the ipod, laptop drives seem pretty robust in general. I am seriously considering replacing the Pocketdrive with the ipod because it would replace my music player and my hard drive with a single smaller device.
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I like the iPod too, but I guess maybe the space is an issue... 5 GB isn't what I need. I do digital photography and video along with tons of MP3's, so, this seemed like the best solution after much deliberation.
Any other suggestions?
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As with the iPod, the PocketDrive is a rather expensive HD. But LaCie has proven that it produces quality devices before, so if you need to put some wear-and-tear on the old PocketDrive, go and do it, baby, do it!
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You know that you can buy a 'pocket drive' enclosure and pop in your own 2.5in drive!
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URL=http://www.apdrives.com/apdrives/1394-slim-Firewire-hard-drive-enclosure-2-5.html]http://www.apdrives.com/[/URL]
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Originally posted by piot:
<STRONG>You know that you can buy a 'pocket drive' enclosure and pop in your own 2.5in drive!</STRONG>
Wow that's pretty cool. Have you (or anyone else out there, for that matter) done this yet? What drives to use?
thanx
cp
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Originally posted by cpatubo:
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Wow that's pretty cool. Have you (or anyone else out there, for that matter) done this yet? What drives to use?
thanx
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i haven't tried it myself (yet) but a company in the UK are selling the complete case with drive installed, and they are using IBM travelstars.
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you can get clear firewire case encloses for about $110 at places like
the mac smith, firewire depot, firewire direct etc..
then pop a small notebook drive in it for about $100 for a 20gig or $200 for a 30 gig at newegg.com
[ 11-05-2001: Message edited by: massey ]
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I went an bought the 20GB HD Pocketdrive via Outpost last night. I couldn't bring myself to buy the CDRW just yet.
It's a bonus that there is a $30 rebate on both right now. 
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i haven't tried it myself (yet) but a company in the UK are selling the complete case with drive installed, and they are using IBM travelstars.
Piot, do you know anywhere in the uk that sells the cases on their own? I'm getting a powerbook, but i have a 3.5" 20GB hard drive that i don't want to lose the use of.
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Originally posted by davidmelvin:
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Piot, do you know anywhere in the uk that sells the cases on their own? I'm getting a powerbook, but i have a 3.5" 20GB hard drive that i don't want to lose the use of.</STRONG>
I have tracked down one company. http://www.span.com/
Post back and let us know how you get on
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Originally posted by cpatubo:
<STRONG>I went an bought the 20GB HD Pocketdrive via Outpost last night. I couldn't bring myself to buy the CDRW just yet.
It's a bonus that there is a $30 rebate on both right now. </STRONG>
You won't regret it, without the best purchase I ever made. My 20GB PD gets knocked around and travels 2-3 times a day, I have had it a while and it has never let me down. I have a few LaCie products and you can always depend on them. Drivers aren't too good sometimes. Oh, watch your cable, get seems to get wrecked quickly.
It is a pretty simple device (i took mine apart, I am going to put a 20g HD inside of mine once I replace my Powerbooks HD), just a laptop drive with a circuit board with a rubber bumper around the edges.
I have wondered how the hell to get into my drive, I can't see a way in unless I get a knife to the wrap around rubber, any advice would be appreciated. Thought about putting that 48GB in.
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Originally posted by naderby:
<STRONG>You won't regret it, without the best purchase I ever made. My 20GB PD gets knocked around and travels 2-3 times a day, I have had it a while and it has never let me down. I have a few LaCie products and you can always depend on them. Drivers aren't too good sometimes. Oh, watch your cable, get seems to get wrecked quickly.</STRONG>
Hmm... what do you mean about the drivers?
I look forward to having the PD in my hands by tomorrow (maybe even this afternoon, hope hope). Good thing, 'cause my Ti is running on less than a gig of HD space 
What other LaCie products do you have?
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Originally posted by naderby:
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I have wondered how the hell to get into my drive, I can't see a way in unless I get a knife to the wrap around rubber, any advice would be appreciated. Thought about putting that 48GB in.</STRONG>
It is really easy to open up the pocketdrive, the rubber around the outside is a friction fit with some adhesive. I just started pulling on it and it eventually it came off. The rest of the case is just a folded piece of metal with the drive and circuit board tucked inside, There are two screws on the bottom that hold the innards to the folded metal. Be careful because everything is exposed after you take off the rubber part. The drive is attached by four screws and you would treat it like any other laptop hard drive when you switch out.
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Originally posted by cpatubo:
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Hmm... what do you mean about the drivers?
I look forward to having the PD in my hands by tomorrow (maybe even this afternoon, hope hope). Good thing, 'cause my Ti is running on less than a gig of HD space
What other LaCie products do you have?</STRONG>
I remeber when I first got the drive the drivers had a problem where if you left the drive idle for about an our the Finder would deem the drive as 'not responding' and you needed a restart.
Updates fixed the problem but dropped a feature I really liked, if you unmounted the drive the light on the front would flash, now it just stays on and I have no quick way of knowing that it's safe to pull the FireWire.
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I have had a few LaCie products, currently I have an external SCSI drive running with our server at work, up running most of the week for weeks on end, bit noisey though.
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It is really easy to open up the pocketdrive, the rubber around the outside is a friction fit with some adhesive. I just started pulling on it and it eventually it came off. The rest of the case is just a folded piece of metal with the drive and circuit board tucked inside, There are two screws on the bottom that hold the innards to the folded metal. Be careful because everything is exposed after you take off the rubber part. The drive is attached by four screws and you would treat it like any other laptop hard drive when you switch out.
Rather you than me! 
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Another vote for the PocketDrive. A little more expensive, but better operation than one of those roll-your-own drives. IMHO.
I love mine. Use it every day for digital video, with nary a hiccup.
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Wow... I got my PocketDrive yesterday afternoon. Outpost is amazing. I ordered it around midnight on Tuesday morning, then received it yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon. Must be the time difference.
But it's great. Plug-and-Play, I was gleefully transferring files within minutes. Anyone use Silverlining Pro with their PocketDrives? It seems kinda neat, but I didn't really use it yet.
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Originally posted by cpatubo:
<STRONG>Wow... I got my PocketDrive yesterday afternoon. Outpost is amazing. I ordered it around midnight on Tuesday morning, then received it yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon. Must be the time difference.
But it's great. Plug-and-Play, I was gleefully transferring files within minutes. Anyone use Silverlining Pro with their PocketDrives? It seems kinda neat, but I didn't really use it yet.</STRONG>
Glad you are enjoying it, I know it's kind of facinating at first
If you want to impress your Wintel mates play a MP3 from iTunes and pull the plug on the drive, seconds later it will cut and ask for the drive to be plugged back in. Plug it back in and the MP3 resumes from where it left of. (MacOS9, not tried it in X)
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I have a PocketDrive too, 20GB LaCie, and use it with Mac and PC...
With WinME in USB something really weird happens. Everything slows to cr@p when I transfer stuff, and for about a minute afterward, I have to wait while the system hangs... then everything back to normal. It didnt do this in the beginning but now has acted up. Anyone hear of this before? LaCie site says nothing about it... their support site sucks.
MacOS X... doesn't recognize the drive because I formatted it in 2 Fat32 partitions... and for some gay reason, MacOS X doesn't recognize it.... so I have to boot into OS 9 to see what I have.
The formatting utility, Silverlining, is the worst crap ever. Must be made by an engineer with no sense of UI at all. The first time I got the drive I reformatted it about a dozen times before I got it right. Damn... is it so hard to make something like the Apple DiskSetup app?
I'm getting paranoid that the drive is getting flaky and so I want to back-up about 7GB of MP3s and about 5GB of Apps and other various stuff I have on it.
Otherwise, its a great buy... I'm really happy with it.
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quote:
Originally posted by davidmelvin:
Piot, do you know anywhere in the uk that sells the cases on their own? I'm getting a powerbook, but i have a 3.5" 20GB hard drive that i don't want to lose the use of.
Originally posted by Piot:
I have tracked down one company. http://www.span.com/
Post back and let us know how you get on
ordered an IceCube 3.5" case and it was delivered next day. unfortunately they have sent me a US power supply, so I have to contact them to get a UK adapter. I'll let you know how the case works out, but it looks really cool and fairly simple to use. thanks for the site.
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Originally posted by davidmelvin:
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ordered an IceCube 3.5" case and it was delivered next day. unfortunately they have sent me a US power supply, so I have to contact them to get a UK adapter. I'll let you know how the case works out, but it looks really cool and fairly simple to use. thanks for the site.</STRONG>
check www.fwdepot.com for a large selection of 2.5" and 3.5" enclosures
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