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External Firewire HD question
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Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: Austin, TX, USA
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Ok, external Firewire harddrives seem to be on the pricey side... Has anyone bought a cheap small Firewire HD, opened it up and replaced the harddrive with a bigger one? Does it work? I was wondering if I could buy the 9 Gig Clubmac Firewire HD for $289 and then replace the internal drive with my 20 gig IDE drive.
Thanks for any info
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Join Date: Jun 1999
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come on, anyone try this?
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no, haven't tried that, but I have doubts about it working. I understood from an Apple rep that most (if not all) current FireWire drives are not TRUE FireWire since they use cheap IDE drives and have a chipset to translate communications. Where that chipset actually exists in a given device I don't know.
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Ok, I should have added a bit of info that I came across in the first post... Almost all "firewire" drives are simply cheap IDE HDs connected to a IDE to Firewire "bridge" It's this bridge that is costing everyone so much. What is the true difference between a 36 gig Firewire drive and 8 gig firewire drive right now? I think it's just the cheap IDE drive connected to it... But this is something the companies that make them don't want everyone to know.
Can someone with one of these drives verify this?
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seanstevens
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you can buy just the enclosure/Bridge/drivers, then add your own drive (40 gig maxtor  .
The enclosure/bridge/sw is like $115.
I think Buy.com has em' but do a search @ www.accelerateyourmac.com
he was talking bout em' a few weeks ago.
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