Rugged Hard Drive

[Deleted member 49549]

Down to 30gb hard drive space on my laptop, so time to get a portable usb drive. Seen one of these:
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10553
£150 from Amazon

Any thoughts / alternatives?

 

[McShug]

They are brilliant, but expensive.

I use a Western Digital Passport with one of these

Transcend also make one, as do Adata

All amazon links

HTH

 

[neil_g]

If you ever have the chance to open one of those rugged lacie drives its comedy.


That said I've got one in my work bag and its okay. Not a big fan of LaCie though, had several failures at work.

 

[gramps]

Cheaper option - I've got two of the earlier models and they are brilliant.

 

[neil_g]

If you ever have the chance to open one of those rugged lacie drives its comedy.

That said I've got one in my work bag and its okay. Not a big fan of LaCie though, had several failures at work.

In fact here you go, still got the pic..

The hard drive "mount" inside the LaCie..

 

[Keith W]

In fact here you go, still got the pic..

The hard drive "mount" inside the LaCie..

Oh my! LOL

 

[LongLensPhotography]

I never liked that company after a big failure

If smaller size is Ok and reliability is key think about SSD as they have no moving parts.

 

[Deleted member 49549]

Thanks all, will order 1 each of the transcend and freecom from amazon.

Daugirdas - dont really want the expense of an ssd, especially as the drive will be a mirror of another drive kept at home, so the data could be lost with little penalty.

 

[McShug]

The Adata are now available at Morgan Computers 1TB for a very reasonable £65 not inc delivery

 

[Deleted member 49549]

The Adata are now available at Morgan Computers 1TB for a very reasonable £65 not inc delivery

That is cheap, £85 from Amazon...

 

[philshep]

I've had a couple of these fail on me too, I think WD do a sort of rugged HD. I buy enclosures, add my own drives and get a decent hard case these days