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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2000
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I'm looking to pick up a FireWire hard drive to keep my PowerBook backed up, as well as to store uncompressed audio and video files. Any opinion on a good model? The size needs to be at least 80GB. Thanks.
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: A mile high, Denver, Colorado, USA
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Who are the Brain Police?
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2000
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Senior User
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Noo Yawk
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I would advise you to do your homework very carefully.
Some FW drives come with specific drivers, some make a lot of noise, some are much larger then they look in a catalog.
My ClubMac is as noisy as heck, and pretty large too. I wouldn't go there again -- right now it's not even mounting on my desktop, but that could be due to an aborted OS 9.2 installation attempt on one of my other partitions.
Othewise, I have a very small, (pocket sized) VST 30 Gig at work that seems to work well -- if size is an important factor. They were not renowned for speed, but I had not problems with its performance for routine file transfers of scads of GIGs.
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80 GB means you won't be getting a bus-powered drive. Thus,
www.transintl.com http://www.transintl.com/store/morei...?Product_ID=59
Quiet
Cool looking (blue light!) and not too big
Dual Firewire ports
Has feet to stand on its side if desired
Stackable
Oxford 911 (fastest chipset, and no need for extra drivers in OS X/9.2)
Comes HFS+ formatted.
Many other companies sell the drives using the same housing by the way.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Chisholm, Minnesota 55719
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Try OWC's 80 gig Mercury Elite 7200. I have two of them. Both are very quiet, very fast and very reliable. The current price of this drive is $265.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Sheman Oaks CA, USA
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I'm very happy with my Maxtor 160G.
I think that will meet your criterion of
80G or greater.
One thing to be aware of: you can't plug it
into a Windows computer and keep your data:
many warnings on the documentation.
I got one of those expansion boxes, too, to
hold a 20G drive that came back from IBM
repair. It works, too, blue LED and all, but
it's kind of cheezy mechanically.
The Maxtor is only 5400 RPM but for backup who cares?
Plus with extra coolness it will last for years
and years and...
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a penny here a penny there, pretty soon you're talking two cents
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