205GB Exernal Drive

Im looking to buy a large external FW/USB2 HDD.
Either the Maxtor Onetouch 250 or the LaCie 250

Anyone recommend either? Or alternatives.

Thanks
AJ

In our flat we've got 2 Lacies, a firewire one and a firewire+USB2 one- not had any problems with it, the casing is also very nice.

Thanks Bruno, I have to say that the LaCie drive certainly looks better

Not used external drives much at all... but from what I've seen earlier LaCie has always looked good.

A few more votes in the poll and I'll splash the cash

LaCie; we have a 500GB at work for backup purposes. I highly recommend getting the FireWire 800 card to go with it if you'll be doing large transfers.

Maxtor, simply because of their excellent after sales support.
If somthing does go wrong, i like to know its going to be sorted yesterday.

Who makes the drive in the LaCie model?

Dunno, I did read the new 1TB big disk from LaCie contains 3 Maxtor Drives though...

Looking more like the maxtor drive now...

Got the maxtor drive, formatted to NTFS, sweet!!!
Plenty speedy.
its a looker to ;-)

n1 :)

Western Digital light up thing :P
Got any photos of the Maxtor AJ?

id go for maxtor