External Hard drives?

Dashingmajor · 15th May 2008, 06:05 PM

Can anyone recommend a decent, quiet external hard drive that connects via firewire?

I saw this LaCie - d2 Quadra Hard Disk - eSATA 3Gbits, FireWire 800, FireWire 400, Hi-Speed USB 2.0 But don't know how noisy it is.

I need one that I can store my Ableton projects on as the laptop HD is getting full, and I keep getting more samples and am running out of places to store them!

kj · 15th May 2008, 06:21 PM

I have a Lacie for backup purposes and it's been performing well. It's not all that noisy although when doing large file transfers it can get a little loud but it's nothing too serious.

Rebelius · 15th May 2008, 06:25 PM

seems pretty expensive, I've got one of these and it suits me fine, it's pretty quiet (I never notice it making any noise, but have a Desktop), fast, plenty of space and turns itself off when not being used.

Only downside would be that it didn't come with an eSATA cable - but did have USB & Firewire.

15th May 2008, 06:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
Dashingmajor Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Cupar Posts: 1,760 Band: Myvatn	External Hard drives? Can anyone recommend a decent, quiet external hard drive that connects via firewire? I saw this LaCie - d2 Quadra Hard Disk - eSATA 3Gbits, FireWire 800, FireWire 400, Hi-Speed USB 2.0 But don't know how noisy it is. I need one that I can store my Ableton projects on as the laptop HD is getting full, and I keep getting more samples and am running out of places to store them!

15th May 2008, 06:21 PM	#2 (permalink)
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15th May 2008, 06:25 PM	#3 (permalink)
Rebelius Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 7,213	seems pretty expensive, I've got one of these and it suits me fine, it's pretty quiet (I never notice it making any noise, but have a Desktop), fast, plenty of space and turns itself off when not being used. Only downside would be that it didn't come with an eSATA cable - but did have USB & Firewire.