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Join Date: May 2005
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Has anyone here had any good experience with the Lacie drives designed by F.A. Porsche? I've been given mised reviews on them before, but not from people on any mac forums. It will primarily be used for storing my video that I shoot, that way I don't load up my 80 gig internal drive. Thanks in advance.
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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I have two 250 GB drives for photography file backups and they have worked without problems for the last 6 months. I have to note that they are not on 24x7 just when backups or file access is required.
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I looked long and hard at the Lacie drives (all the different ones) when I started to need external drives for extra storage- but I just couldn't justify their price for their performance.
Check the drive your looking at and find out it's RPM speed & cache memory- then compare that to buying an off the shelf drive and putting it in an external case yourself- I found I could save a few $$ and get a much faster drive by going that self- assembly route.
Good luck!
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If I'm not mistaken, the 250GB Lacie Porsche drive is actually 7200RPM - isn't that fast enough? I think it also has 8MB cache...
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yeah i was definitely going to get a 7200 rpm drive, and i think it has that and an 8mb cache too. Thanks for the input
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I had a client that had about 5 for backups at their small office. They seemed to work find and I saw no speed issues, although I wasn't using them for video editing or anything else disk-intensive.
You are paying a premium for the look, but if that is a major buying point for you then the Porsche drives are one of the sleekest looking drives around.
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Actually lately on the wholeseller side those drives have been cheaper to purchase then the same D2 drive. For some reason they haven't been as popular in sales as the D2 and due to that the prices have been lowered. I have seen a few places that pass this on but you need to look around.
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I've got a single 250 that I use for video work and I'd like to get another. I love the fact that the drive is absolutely silent and small enough to tote around when I need to take a project on the road. And yes mine is 7200 rpm with an 8 mb cache.
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Haven't got the experience yet, since my order hasn't arrived yet. I first ordered one with usb2.0 but changed the order into one with firewire400 (faster on mac).
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