What External Hard Drive Are You Using?, Just curious of what others use... Options

[Lotus17]

I am pretty much just curious of what works well and what doesn't work well. I really want a Glyph 80 GB Tabletop Firewire drive, but the Cost VS Capacity VS Stability is what is killing me. I have heard that using hard drives that aren't meant for audio recording can burn up by being too overwhelmed with too much data too quickly and that they are unreliable. I have heard anything by Glyph is like a tank and works extremely well. So I was curious if there was other solutions out there that offer more Capacity, are cheap pricewise, and are actually stable. Any help would rock! Thanks!

-Lotus

[xingu]

I use an OWC without any problems. I've heard of quite a few others using OWC, Lacie and others just fine, and the general consensus seems to be that Glyphs are overpriced (unless you're talking to a Sweetwater rep or something).

[azusa]

For firewire HD, I use OWC/ADS pyro and Maxtor "One Touch".
Both work fine up to the limit of firewire spec., no problem.

[formatj]

I use 2 LaCie Firewire Extreme drives (250GB + 320GB) on my firewire 800 port and a regular LaCie 120GB on the Firewire 400 port.
They have been very reliable, very solid cases and very quiet (no fan).

[kassotis]

Hi,

I'm using a western digital 250GB firewire 400 on the firewire and a custom build western digital 250GB on the USB2 bus. Both work sweet and their performance values are much better than lacie's.

Ion

[kaboombahchuck]

I want to add a question or 2 here,.,

1, How much noise does your external hardrive make ( if you have, or have used more than one, which makes more noise)?

2, If you had it all to do over again, would you stick with the external, or go internal? I understand internals are quieter and preform as well (if not better than) external.