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- hiten
so i bought this cause i thought it might be a good deal
http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/pr…does anyone know if this kit will work to convert it to an external drive?
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog…cause thats what i need it for and i thought it was cheap but i do see a lacie drive thats bascially the same price maybe i should return it and get that...what do you guys think?
- jaylarson0
I don't know if the kit will/won't work, but Lacies die much quicker than internal HDs in external cases. Good luck.
- ribit0
"but Lacies die much quicker than internal HDs in external cases"
Why should they do that? they ARE 'internal HDs in external cases'...but with integrated design and a warranty thats useful..
I just had a 250GB Lacie Ethernet disk repaired under warranty after almost a year after it lost network connectivity, they sent back a 500GB...we're happy! (we have 6 Lacie d2's, this was first to have had any trouble).
- determinedmoth0
Hey Ribit. I've got a question that you may be able to help me with.
Are you on email?
- ribit0
yup..
- acescence0
it looks at first glance as if it would work, though i'm familiar with serial ata, not sure what the difference is with parallel ata?
as for lacie, i would avoid them. we had 4 d2's used for audio editing, and they've ALL failed within a year. i've had many similar reports, they're just not reliable under heavy use (audio, video).
- hiten0
awesome...yeah its just for backup purposes...im just going to back up files on them and and store it. It wont be in use alot...do you think thats a bad idea...whats better DVD stroage of files or HD backups?
- acescence0
nothing is forever in the long term. you'll probably want to transfer to new media every so often. all the early cd's and dvd's i've burned are now failing 1 by 1. we archive everything to LTO tape, 400 gigs on a tape, probably more reliable than a disc, but who knows how for how long?
- ribit0
we use disks...but always two of everything...to be safe you've got to assume that any single drive will fail (today) with total data loss...
- acescence0
yeah, one on-site, one off-site, just in case someone loses it and decides to burn the place down.