Firewire reliability

[BDWillis]

I've had good luck with LaCie d2 drives over the past few years, but a couple of buddies have had terrible experiences with the little Porche drives.

The last year or so I've been using Granite Digital drives: http://granitedigital.com/ They've been trouble-free for me (knock wood) & seem reasonably priced. Not the quietest drives owing to cooling fans in the case, but I can't help but wonder if heat is why the LaCie's are having problems...??!

FWIW, I also use Granite Digital SCSI cables, terminators & Firwire cables... guess you could say I really like their quality.

Warmest Regards,
Brian

[tedness]

I bought the drives within the last 3 weeks- They were 160s- not sure of the model- they had external power supplies

[rfenton]

I've been using the D2 Big Disk Extreme 500 G through the FW 800 on my G5 as well.
Been 5 months and no problems at all (touch wood)
I've always had good luck with Lacie stuff and Macs.
My 2 cents

[newburysound]

I have a recent vintage Lacie AIT 2 tape backup drive that worked very erratically for the longest time. Tried swapping out cables and reordering components to no avail. Was ready to send unit back to LaCie but then finally stumbled upon a fix.
Apparently the drive wanted nothing to do with the 9-pin Firewire port on my G5 dual-2 gig. Since swapping it to the 6-pin Firewire port it works great. And the 9-pin now feeds my Glyph drives with no problems!