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External firewire hard drive..
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: DC Metro Area
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Any rec's on a good external firewire hard drive? Any one I should avoid? I am running 10.2.4 on my 500mhz iBook (dual USB).
Thanks!! 
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: England
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I have a LaCie PocketDrive 40GB which is superb - portable, very well built, with a sustained transfer rate of 35MB/sec.
Also it is powered through the Firewire port, so needs no mains supply (although one is supplied).
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Belgium
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Yep, avoid Maxtor and Lacie ( I've only got experience with the old models ), I've got drives from both companies. The maxtor is terrible, it's really really slow, it takes ages to transfer large files to the drive however getting files of the drive is really fast, you really have to see it to believe it, also the drive makes a very unhealthy sound when writing, it don't think this is normal but this shouldn't happen, an external drive should be ultra reliable. Sometimes it works perfect sometimes it doesn't, only thing I can say is that i don't trust this thing..  The lacie is better but I once lost a complete partition on it, not funny, I don't know if this is the faulth of the drive, the OS or the drivers, but my experience with firewire drives in general hasn't been very good. The lacie is also really slow... I've got an old model and maybe the new drives are much better, at least the look better and don't sound like a jet taking of Get an internal drive if you can, safer, faster, more reliable and cheaper or an iPod...
Sorry for being so negative but I haven't been impressed with the reliability of these drives, I hope someone can recommend a good reliable firewire drive becuase I can't ...
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: new york
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my maxtor 80 gig really sucks.
failed once, and had to send it back, but the new one is still terrible. would never reccomend it to anyone.
- matt
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Madison, WI
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I would also recommend avoiding Maxtor. I have a Mercury Elite 40 GB from OWC ( http://www.macsales.com) and have not had any problems over the past year and a half that I've owned it.
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Join Date: Aug 2000
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I recently bought an OWC Mercury Elite FW enclosure and put a Maxtor 120 GB drive in it (took about 5 minutes). It's been perfectly reliable, even when I've forgotten to unmount it.
Maxtor internal drives are no less reliable than other makes (however, I don't know about their ready-made external drives). Personally, I'd buy an internal drive from any of the manufacturers based on price, then install it in an OWC or Weibe enclosure. Or I'd buy a ready-made external drive from OWC, Weibe, or LaCie. YMMV.
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Yep, I have to defend Maxtor here as well. I bought a 120gig DV Personal Backup and it's been working flawlessly for over a year. I gotta say, I never had any problems with Maxtor internal HDD's either, and I do a lot of PC building, so if they were prone to failure (or more so than other drives), I think I would've noticed. IBM 30GXP's, however - well, they called it the 'deathstar' because the manufacturing process was faulty. 
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Francisco
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(Last edited by daimoni; Jul 11, 2004 at 12:36 AM.
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