External hard drive questions

[Mauvehead]

Anyone have any experience on Lacie external hard drives. I need a Firewire drive to use with my laptop since the internal drive is too slow for what I am doing. I'm looking at either a 160GB Triple Extreme drive or else a 250GB Extreme drive. The 160 is USB 2.0, Firewire 400 and Firewire 800 compatible. The 250 has only the Firewire options. I have a Firewire 400 port on my laptop and am considering getting a PCMCIA Firewire 800 adapter. Any thoughts, recommendations, words of wisdom, warnings, etc?? Thanks!

[Mr. Tingle]

I brought a usb2 bus powered lacie drive that has 7200rpm 60gig, it was pricey but has been flawless so far (3 months). The bus power is well handy.

IBM T41 T2

[koolkeys]

Lacie hard drives are probably the BEST audio external drives that exist. That is what the pro studios use here in Nashville also. It's worth a little extra money for the stability.

Koolkeys

[greenlander]

Yeah I use an 80gb Lacie Firewire Drive to house my Traction files in conjunction with my laptop. Really can't fault it, I've had zero problems.

[will.record.for.food]

I work for a Large school district as a computer tech...We deal exclusively with LaCie drives for External HD as well as external CD burners. As previously stated, these are rock solid

[Mauvehead]

Sounds good to me. I posted the same thread over in the Hardware section and I've been getting mixed reports. I'm glad to hear some of you really like the Lacie stuff. The specs on the drive I'm most interested in are excellent. I think I should go for it. I really need a faster drive than my Toshiba's internal. Thanks for the input!