Lacie D2 external SATA harddrive 10K rpm - what d'you think?

[rjamesd05]

Thinking of getting a Lacie D2 external SATA drive for my laptop (will need a external SATA adapter PCMCIA/Card bus card, see below also)

It runs at 10000rpm !!! Fastest external hard drive I've seen with an access time of 6ms

74Gb is small but still enough to get quite a bit of footage on. Combine this with my internal laptop 60Gb 7K60 7200rpm Hitachi hard drive.

What do you think?

http://www.savastore.com/productinfo/product.aspx?catalog_name=Savastore&product_id=10...EEA9BB61B2B020

SATA adapter - plugs into standard laptop PCMCIA expansion
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=107701

[waheed]

Seems a little expensive.

However, 10,000 RPM drives are rather extremely fast. I wonder if its just a rebagged western digital as that is also 10,000 RPM and 74GB.

[rallynavvie]

Those fast drives are really only good as an OS drive or something else that can really use the faster access speeds, otherwise it's a waste of your money. You'd be better off spending that money toward a larger 7200rpm external hard drive, but you're on the right track with the SATA interface.