pinkywinkieOZ Posted February 27, 2013 Report Share Posted February 27, 2013 Hello! I've had my Lacie Rugged decide to just not connect on several occasions on location recently, and even though I've got the recordings on my 788's internal drive which I then backup on my bigger drive at home, I'm paranoid and like to make as many copies as possible So, can anyone recommend a sturdy location hard drive instead of the Rugged? Cheers! Eren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackHenry Posted February 27, 2013 Report Share Posted February 27, 2013 Kingston have released a 512Gb USB thumb drive. A 1Tb version is on the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howiecreate Posted February 27, 2013 Report Share Posted February 27, 2013 When it comes to external Hard Drives I've had the best success with the owc products from macsales.com. I know it doesn't have a fancy rubber case, but I also don't drop my hard drives constantly. Every Lacie that we've ever had at work has eventually died due to controller card issues. By every, I mean to say 5. We've had one fall off a motorcycle and keep working, but for some reason they all always end up EOLing due to some some kind of burn mark on the controller card when we go in to get the drives out. Right now I really like the owc case loaded with a sandisk extreme ssd that I get off of Amazon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afewmoreyears Posted February 27, 2013 Report Share Posted February 27, 2013 I have tortured my Rugged orange LaCie.... Never a problem..... Maybe I have been lucky... I see them all the time at work, nobody complains about them.... interesting... Are you talking about the OWC SSD Mercury Triple? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Anderson Posted February 27, 2013 Report Share Posted February 27, 2013 I use the other OWC enclosures: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go No problems...yet. They mostly sit on my cart and get rotated out as they fill up. Josh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek H Posted February 27, 2013 Report Share Posted February 27, 2013 SSD drives are cheap enough now I would think you could find a reasonably priced 128 or 256 GB model and install it in an enclosure. That would be the most rugged option I would think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Feeley Posted February 27, 2013 Report Share Posted February 27, 2013 > So, can anyone recommend a sturdy location hard drive instead of the Rugged? Two LaCie Rugged drives. I hear fairly frequent tails of LaCie failures; but is that because of poor design/ventilation of the cases (one theory) or because they sell so many drives we of course hear more about their failures than we do of failures from a vendor with smaller sales? Got me. Anyway, here are some brands of portable drives I've worked with that seem pretty reliable: Glyph http://www.glyphtech.com/ CalDigit http://www.CalDigit.com/ And I see (and end up using) drives in cases from G-Technology, LaCie, and Macsales/OWC. The drives seem to rarely fail. The power supplies and electronics in the cases fail somewhat more often (but not all that frequently)...usually, just putting the drive in a new case (or in a toaster drive dock like the NewerTech Voyager) gets us through the problem. HTH, Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg sextro Posted February 27, 2013 Report Share Posted February 27, 2013 I've generally had good luck with OWC, though i did have one of their pocket drives fail on me...or rather the enclosure. I've been using a mini glyph drive for a while now and it's held up fine. though, i don't really toss it around. I kind of loathe LaCie and stay away from them at any cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 No LaCie for me, ever again. That orange rubber thing around the edge of the "rugged" drives is decoration--it does nothing at all to protect the drive. DITs in my area prefer the GTech drives, esp the larger form-factor (the smaller ones don't have cooling fans). They've both worked well for me. Unless you are recording big-bandwidth video you don't really need a 7500 or 10K rpm drive, and lesser iron will work very well for backup transfers. I've kind of bailed on firewire after many years, and use all USB now. My current fave backup medium isn't a drive at all, it's a 32 GB USB stick--no moving parts, and cheap! philp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwstudios Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 64 GB USB thumb drives currently going for around $40... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackHenry Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 64 GB USB thumb drives currently going for around $40... That's why I mentioned this Kingston have released a 512Gb USB thumb drive. A 1Tb version is on the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkywinkieOZ Posted February 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 Awesome, thanks everybody! Much to consider = best possible result. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindrop Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 No LaCie for me either, I've had repeated external and internal power supply failures, and LaCie does not seem to want to learn that if you maximize profits by sourcing cheap power supplies there's going to be a high failure rate and you will lose customers, and loose revenue ultimately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Wexler Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 Same here, fed up with LaCie after years and many drives, most of them failing (power supply, chip problems, etc.). I have been most happy with G-Tech drives now. G-Tech Mini (bus powered) and larger units with external wall warts. They are rugged and reliable so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnpaul215 Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 I've had decent luck with Lacie drives. I have had ones eventually fail, but I also throw those "rugged" drives in my messenger bag and they get tossed around. I have an editor friend that uses the Lacie and the G-drives. The one thing he said to me was that he felt the Lacie drives shipped with crap cables, and felt that he had problems when their included cables had a loose connection to the drive. First thing he did when he opened a new Lacie drive was to cut the cables in two with a pair of scissors or a leatherman, and use some quality cables he carried with him. It's possible a loose cable with intermittent connections could mess with the internal power supply, let alone the drive itself. I have done a few shows where we used a pair of the smaller G-drives. We would FedEx them back and forth from location. In some cases across the US, and on one show from Philly to the UK. They mostly worked that way, until some fiscally concerned desk jockey told us to use cardboard boxes instead of a little Pelican (because of shipping prices) and we lost a drive in transit (due to damage). Maybe a coincidence, but when a documentary show is saved on a HDD, it's a very valuable HDD. There is no reshooting that stuff. fortunately somebody in the location office made the decision to have a local backup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanpeds Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 I'm a Glyph drive user and have never had a complaint. On production I use the Solid State Portagig drive 128GB and I have never had a problem. It mounts everytime to my 788T and 744T unlike some other drives. They have a great warranty but they aren't cheap. You get what you pay for though. I have had it all over the world in pretty harsh conditions and it has gotten so hot that it has burned me. It has never failed ever and continues running strong. Great drive and highly recommended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundmanjohn Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 +1 for the Glyph PortaGig drives. I also gave up on the LaCie drives a while ago and changed to Glyphs and have had no problems for many years now. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srgtfury Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 3/3 for LaCie-electronic recycling bin... Thank you very much Fury Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmgoodin Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 Kingston have released a 512Gb USB thumb drive. A 1Tb version is on the way Only problem with the Kingston 512GB THumb drive is the price. It is about $800 for the 512GB. And probably more than $1500 for the 1 TB when it becomes available. Cheaper 240GB SSDs at about $200 would be a better choice and just as rugged Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmfsnd Posted March 22, 2013 Report Share Posted March 22, 2013 Depending on how much data you 'wrangle', USB flash memory or solid state drives are the way to go. Less moving parts, and ease of use. You can then copy the files at home on a bigger storage device that isn't "mobile". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bondelev Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 +1 OWC on the go. Great drives, never had a problem. Of course my work is not in the field, but I have had LaCie drives fail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Giles Posted March 25, 2013 Report Share Posted March 25, 2013 IMO- Glyph Portagig drives or build your own OWC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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