External Hard Drives

[econoline]

Hey guys and gals,

Just curious as to what external hard drives everyone is using these days. I've used LaCie's for years now, and never had a problem. However, I recently purchased one of their new thunderbolt hard drives, and it only had one thunderbolt port on the back . What's the point of daisy-chaining thunderbolt devices if there is only one port.

Anyway - it got me thinking of other options. I read somewhere about these, which are interesting http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/METB7DH4.0T/. My main concern is that they are listed as sustaining 400 mb/s. That seems really low to me.

Any thoughts? Anyone using OWC successfully? Any other options?

BTW - PTW 10.3.9 / late 2012 iMac / Quad 3.1 /16GB ram / OS 10.8.5

Thanks!

[Craig F]

were are you seeing that spec?
what I found on the Spec page:

Max Data Transfer Rate

• Thunderbolt – Up to 10Gb/sec
• USB 3.0 – Up to 500MB/sec
• USB 2.0 – Up to 60MB/sec

might be a miss on updating from the FW400

[editdoc]

I'm using a OWC 1T external HD with no issues.

[albee1952]

OWC are my recommendation as the best value(better quality than Lacie, lower price than Glyph)

[feliponk]

Western Digital and Seagate USB 3 2 TB each here, 0 downtime since 3 years ago.

[econoline]

Thank you everyone for your replies!! I'll be purchasing the OWC drive today. I really just needed to hear from some users who could confirm that the drives are up to spec!

[QUOTE=Craig F;2184296]were are you seeing that spec?

Craig, I'm pulling this directly from the main info page of the link:

"High-Performance + Flexible
A blazing fast Thunderbolt chipset unleashes the full potential of this rugged external drive's dual 3.5" hard drives with sustained data rates of nearly 400MB/s plus the flexibility of hardware RAID 0, 1, and non-RAID modes to best suit your demanding applications and workflow."

I'm guessing that the key words here are "sustained data rates".

Thanks again for everyone's help!

-Mike

[right beside]

+1 for OWC.

On-the-go PRO 7200 rpm, 1TB firewire 800 and USB 3.0, bus powered.

Have never had a problem with them. Have had problems with other manufacturers.

[WernerF]

+1000 for OWC. Been using them for many years without a single problem ever. Had problems with Lacie's, Glyph's and quite a few other's.

[Zakazastar]

I am using:

For sample libraries: OWC Elite Pro.

For audio projects: WD BUFFALO DriveStation USB 3.0

Both work very well!