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Lacie or Maxtor? 160GB or 250GB?
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<blockquote data-quote="kaidomac" data-source="post: 178661" data-attributes="member: 15110"><p>I don't like Maxtor drives because of the noise. LaCie makes excellent hard drives, and if you can afford one, I'd say go for it. They are also generally quiet. I recently built my own external drive system using a 3.5" AMS Venus Firewire enclosure and a 250gb 7200rpm 8mb Seagate 7200.8 hard drive (I'm a big fan of Seagates...low noise, good performance, and 5-year warranty). Total cost was about $155. It works great, although the Venus case is somewhat loud because it has a cooling fan in it. Well, loud compared to my G4 Cube, which is dead silent. Links are below.</p><p></p><p>AMS Venus case, $54:</p><p><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145657" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145657</a></p><p></p><p>250gb Seagate 7200.8 hard drive, $101:</p><p><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148062" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148062</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Also, if you ever decide to upgrade your internal drive, I highly recommend the free Carbon Copy Cloner, available here:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html" target="_blank">http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html</a></p><p></p><p>It lets you clone your internal drive to an external drive via Firewire. You can get a nice 2.5" Firewire enclosure for $35 here:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817146604" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817146604</a></p><p></p><p>I used my 3.5" Venus to clone my 20gb stock drive to a newer 120gb Seagate and it worked perfectly, no complaints here. Easy way to boost the internal speed and size <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kaidomac, post: 178661, member: 15110"] I don't like Maxtor drives because of the noise. LaCie makes excellent hard drives, and if you can afford one, I'd say go for it. They are also generally quiet. I recently built my own external drive system using a 3.5" AMS Venus Firewire enclosure and a 250gb 7200rpm 8mb Seagate 7200.8 hard drive (I'm a big fan of Seagates...low noise, good performance, and 5-year warranty). Total cost was about $155. It works great, although the Venus case is somewhat loud because it has a cooling fan in it. Well, loud compared to my G4 Cube, which is dead silent. Links are below. AMS Venus case, $54: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145657[/url] 250gb Seagate 7200.8 hard drive, $101: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148062[/url] Also, if you ever decide to upgrade your internal drive, I highly recommend the free Carbon Copy Cloner, available here: [url]http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html[/url] It lets you clone your internal drive to an external drive via Firewire. You can get a nice 2.5" Firewire enclosure for $35 here: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817146604[/url] I used my 3.5" Venus to clone my 20gb stock drive to a newer 120gb Seagate and it worked perfectly, no complaints here. Easy way to boost the internal speed and size :) [/QUOTE]
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