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Under the Club Mac brand Club Mac is selling 20GB USB HD for $175!, are these things trustworthy? Anyone with any reasonable amount of experience with them?
I've found nothing near this price so I'm a bit suspicious of their reliability.

Link to page: http://www.clubmac.com/cgi-bin/sgin0...LUE&FNM=07

All Club Mac is doing is using a standard USB enclosure (they sell them for ~$75) and a standard IDE hard drive (20GB = less than $100). Nothing magical - it's just that the other USB hard drive makers tend to use more fancy cases, and some of them use 2.5" IDE drives instead of the cheaper 3.5" drives.

I bought a Club Mac SCSI hard drive three years ago - and it has been one of the best peripheral I have ever bought. I have never had any trouble with it at all. The Club Mac stuff is definitely very plain and simple, but it does get the job done, far cheaper I might add.


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Eliott Wolfe
Winnetka, Calif