…making it a bit more bulky.
For testing and comparison I ran SiSoft Sandra 2009 Removable Storage Benchmark, and compared the Verbatim to my 2.5 160GB SATA drive and an OCZ Rally2 Turbo Flash Drive. The… Read more…
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Installed the drive in *another* Firewire external enclosure – this time one from LaCie. Now, Disk Utility on the MacBook Pro sees the drive, the drive label is reported as “LaCie Group SA” but Disk Utility cannot format the drive. The format begins, but the …. One strange thing that I observed was that the Seagate Momentus 500GB 5400.6 drives operate much cooler than the 120GB or 160GB 5400RPM drive supplied with the FW400 MacBook plastic. I don’t remember the exact … Read more…
Did you know that your actual hard disk performance under Windows is determined not only by the speed of your harddrive (as measured by most disk benchmarks) but also by factors such as the mainboard chipset, UDMA/PIO mode, ….. I\’m really surpised to see that the external USB HD is a little better then the internal HD. my laptop is: DELL Latitude D820 Core Duo T5600 1,83GHz. 2GB RAM. Internal HD: 120 GB 5400 RPM. write: 1024Mb in 51.84s = 19.8MB per second … Read more…
Fortunately I live nearby a Staples and instead went and bought a replacement – the LaCie Mobile Disk 160GB. Call it a bank holiday treat. It was a toss between this and an Iomega, but I am a bit apprehensive of their brand after being forced to go through loads of … The LaCie drive contains a 2.5″ Seagate SATA hard disk with a rotational speed of 5400rpm and 8MB cache. It supports USB 2.0 and comes with a mini USB cable and a USB power cable for low powered USB ports. … Read more…
I bought the 160GB version because it was really inexpensive. I paid around $68 after discounts through a sale at Buy.com, but I’d really like to have a larger capacity hard drive in it. I can add external USB drives to it, …… I recently purchased a Lacie Ethernet Disk Mini 500 (the new gigabit ethernet version) and thought i’d share a little since the macintouch community has taught me so much. A couple surprises that i don’t think were on the non-gigabit version: … Read more…
Back up your MAC with a Verbatim’s FireWire/USB portable hard drive which is fully compatible with the Leopard Time Machine feature. Product Number: 96529. Capacity/Speed: 160GB/5400 RPM. Specs/Features: * Rotational Speed – 5400 RPM * External power …. FORMAT the existing FAT system to NTFS for Windows XP, Vista, Dell Laptop, etc. Format to Mac system for Mac (excuse I know little about Mac). Now then, save whatever you wish to store on your Verbatim external drive. … Read more…
Seagate’s FreeAgent family includes several external products based on 3.5″ hard drives and two mobile solutions based on 1″ and 2.5″ hard drives. Today we’ll examine the top model Seagate FreeAgent Go 160 GB (ST901603FGD1E1-RK). … They are absolutely identical except for their capacity: 122×99x18.5 mm, 182 g (with a hard drive), USB 2.0, they come with a 5400 rpm hard drive (to be more exact – Seagate Momentus 5400.3 with perpendicular magnetic recording) and bundled … Read more…
Can you suggest a great 200plus GB external hard disk drive for a Ibook G4?” I’ve been using LaCie’s external drives for a while, with my Powerbook G4. Right now I have a Firewire 250GB and a USB 500GB. The former is for backups, the latter for music. …… The drive is a little louder than the old stock Hitachi 5400 rpm 120 GB, but there are no issues with heat. (By “louder” I mean there is some noise. Silence is my benchmark and goal, which is why I love the Mac Mini). … Read more…
The higher the rotational speed of the drive, the more data the drive can read and write from your computer. Most home computer internal hard drives rotate at 7200 rpm. at min 5400rpm, but preferably 7200rpm 5) recs LaCie Little Disk … Read more…
This was the time when the external SCSI hard drive market was beginning to blossom. We made a distribution arrangement with a certain company in the SF Bay area that put hard drives into external cases to offer their external SCSI hard ….. In case this helps other users, I have recent experience with 500GB triple interface external drives from LaCie, Maxtor, and Western Digital. Each is/was connected via Firewire 800 to a dual G5 running OS X 10.4.x (now 10.4.8). … Read more…
