Recommend Me An External Hard Drive, Hard Drive Recommendation Options

[Chocolate Music]

Howdy Folks,

I'm looking to buy an external FW800 drive for my Protools 7/G5/dual2.5/10.3/4gRam

My budget is around 200-250.

Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance,

Chocolate

[dewpill]

Hi!

I have 5 FW La Cie: 3 of them have failed (defective bridge).
Fortunately I could take the IDE internal drives out and put them in another FW enclosure.
This happened after a little more than 2 years.
"Apart from that", they work fine as well as very silently.

LPM, I didn't know the Pleiades enclosures.
Where did you buy them?
Regards,

Dewpill

[lepetitmartien]

LPM, I didn't know the Pleiades enclosures.
Where did you buy them?

I bought them here in france, their name is ICECUBE Pleiades, it's fanless all alu enclosures with oxford bridges.

Just googled and they are available easily online. Note that they are sold under other names depending where you buy them. For example, some of the enclosures sold at cooldrives or firewiredirect are very similar.

I have also a spare Icy Box enclosure for SATA drives, it works fine, but it's not rugged enough if you're on the move and I won't be confident for heavy duty jobs (regarding temperature, not enough contact to dissipate the heat).