LaCie - Clearance Hard Drives
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dogzcatcher  All-Star Member Fat bottomed girls make the rockin' world go round! 1551 Posts 5/09 |  Posted - Dec 3 2010 : 12:52AMWhich brands are best? I want to purchase one. What I would like to do with the portable hard drive is download VOD titles to it. Until now, my purchases have been made from brick and mortar stores. I've noticed that some VOD titles are about 4 GB in size. Thanks. [Link] |
| Robert Member My past is a foreign country. Most things are different there, including word usage. 503 Posts 12/06 | Posted - Dec 3 2010 : 12:29PM |
| ninja1 Senior Member 2939 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Dec 3 2010 : 12:57PM This gives you more flexibility to use whatever harddrive you want, which is a good idea with harddrive prices bouncing and dropping the way they do. The downside is they are bigger and bulkier than the sleek ready-made externals, and require an external power connection (again, non-sleek). It boils down to how do you plan to use it. Will you be throwing it into a laptop bag and hauling it all over the place, or will it stay planted on your desk all the time, or what? [Link] |
| Gentleman Jon All-Star Member 1881 Posts 6/05 | Posted - Dec 3 2010 : 1:13PM [Link] |
| ninja1 Senior Member 2939 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Dec 3 2010 : 2:19PM [Link] |
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| dogzcatcher All-Star Member Fat bottomed girls make the rockin' world go round! 1551 Posts 5/09 | Posted - Dec 5 2010 : 2:43AM It will stay planted on my desk. I was looking for recommendations on a reliable portable hard drive. I could check the reviews on other websites except I'd like to hear what other porn fans like myself recommend. [Link] |
| jrsl76 Senior Member Perfection 4024 Posts 8/07 | Posted - Dec 6 2010 : 4:54PM LaCie Ruggeds aren't too bad either [Link] |
| BadKarma Member 110 Posts 11/00 | Posted - Dec 7 2010 : 2:00AM Some people swear by Seagate (I think they're crap, since I've had so many problems with Seagate drives). Others, like myself, like Western Digital (since they seem to not fail, at least for me. I'm sure someone here thinks Western Digital is crap.) Since you want 'portable' your choices are somewhat narrowed. Pick a size and interface (USB, Firewire, eSATA), pays your money, take it home and plug it in. Note that LaCie does not make hardrives. They package hardrives from other manufacturers into their enclosures, so the only way to know what harddrive is in a LaCie is to take it apart and look. If you're more technically inclined you can "do it yourself" by buying an external enclosure and a hard drive and screw everything together yourself. The downside is that there's no one to blame if things don't work (although I've never had a problem doing this myself). I use these external enclosures : OtherWorld to which I add a Western Digital laptop hardrive of the desired capacity. So far I've had good results using WD 750GB 7200RPM drives. Note that this combination will run bus-powered on USB, so you don't need any external power source (one less thing to lug). Question? If the thing is going to stay "planted on you desk" why do you want portable? I'm a big fan of network attached storage (NAS) which means I can access the the harddrive from any PC (or Mac, Linux, etc.) on the network. Makes life a lot easier. [Link] |
| dogzcatcher All-Star Member Fat bottomed girls make the rockin' world go round! 1551 Posts 5/09 | Posted - Dec 10 2010 : 1:22AM Thanks for the advise, gentlemen. I purchased a 500 GB portable hard drive. I purchased it to extend the life of my 5 year old Compaq computer. I plugged it in, and I was able to transfer 30 GB of files from my desktop to the portable hard drive. So far, it works great! [Link] |
| ninja1 Senior Member 2939 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Dec 10 2010 : 12:09PM [Link] |
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