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Question About External Hard Drives and Powerbook
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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Hello, I am looking at two different external hard drives that I am considering for my 15" powerbook. They will be used primarily for Final Cut Pro, capturing media.
The first is: LaCie d2 Hard Drive Serial ATA 250 GB
The second is: LaCie d2 LaCie d2 Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface 250 GB
I am wondering has anyone out there used either of these with their powerbook, even both perhaps?, and if so what their experiences have been.
Also, the SATA one is only 10 dollars more than the latter, but it transfers at much faster rates. I am curious, what is the primary difference between these two? How does one go about choosing between the two models? Is the only advantage to the triple Interface one that it has more connectivity options?
Thank you all very much, and I am sorry if the latter half of my question was not powerbook specific (Tooki, please have mercy on me) 
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Some people have issues with the larger porsche-designed drives; I have no issues with my FireWire/USB 2.5" 5400rpm drive, nor any other LaCie product.
SATA looks nice if you are primarily non-mobile.
Rocstor is a choice by a friend of mine; but I have no experience with them. It's nice to have a FireWire drive if you want to make a bootable backup, which I have, and sync my projects to--so I have an almost synced clone.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
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LaCie is a no-go in my book. I've seen too much $%^& from that company to ever recommend it.
Your PowerBook doesn't have any Serial ATA ports, so that's not really an option for you unless you buy a PCMCIA SATA card (and I haven't seen any Mac compatible PCMCIA SATA cards yet).
I'd recommend this FW800+USB2 enclosure and this 250GB Seagate drive. It's a bit cheaper than the LaCies you were looking at ($206 instead of $220-230), and of course you can put a larger drive in the enclosure (now or later).
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Originally Posted by iomatic
PCMCIA, CardBus, it's all the same thing. Good to know.
In that case, I'd recommend that card, an external SATA enclosure, and a 250GB or 300GB drive. SATA makes FW feel slow.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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check out macsales.com drives, and tekserve (sorry no links, too tired!)
my gf is a filmmaker (a real one; i dabble), and she's using tekserve drives, quite happily.
i've seen others with the macsales ones (mercury elite pro) as well.
having said all that...i have ezquest & lacie drives (pro audio work) and have no problems...
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Slick, I didn't know you could get a SATA card for a powerbook - definitely go with that setup - especially as when you eventually/probably move over to a G5 for the heavy lifting, you won't have to deal with the sometimes crappy sustained data transfer over FW800 with the G5.
I've looked at buying different drives to Lacie, especially enclosures and separate drivers, but normally when you cost it out it doesn't make that much sense - and, at least in London, you can't just walk in and buy all the crap off the shelf. (Often the best manufacturers are American companies with terrible European dealers with nothing in stock.)
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