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Firewire HDs
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: Austin, TX, USA
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Why do these new firewire HDs cost so much when compared to IDE drives? Did you know that all of these new firewire drives are simply an enclosure with some firewire to IDE circuitry with a cheap IDE drive in it? Fantomdrives is selling these drives for like $800 bucks!!! You can purchase the enclosure for 140 at buy.com and install any size IDE you want,,, So a 40 gig Firewire HD should only cost you around $400.
Is there something I am missing? Are these companies just raping the consumer because this is the next new technology and people don't know any better?
I see someone is on ebay selling 27 gig firewire drives ... puts them together himself... and is raking in the dough...
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Join Date: Jan 1999
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I've thought about this as well. I mean come! It is a major rip off when companies are charging $800 for something like this, when it's probably only costing them $200-$250 to make the drive when they buy the parts in bulk. Pretty crazy, but I guess these companies feel it's like any other new technology, and they over charge the early adopters... Oh well, as for me... I'll just build my own 
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: new york
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any details for us non-techies on how such a thing is done? i'm all for saving 4 hundred bucks, but i wouldn't have a clue about how to do this.....
is it hard to do?
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: Austin, TX, USA
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Buy the Firewire to IDE enclosure
Buy any size IDE HD.
OPen the enclosure with a screwdriver.. connect the power cord to the IDE drive, connect the IDE connector to the IDE drive.
Fasten the drive into place with screws.. (You don't want the drive to lay free inside the case)
Close the enclosure. Hook it up..
Probably have to format the IDE drive ... but after that... you own a firewire HD...
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: Austin, TX, USA
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I just thought of something... What is a Firewire drive? Ok, we know that it's really an IDE drive in an enclosure that bridges between IDE to firewire.
In order to get Adaptec's Toast software to work with the firewire drives, we have to install an extension called FireSCSI. Guess what that does?... it tricks toast into thinking that the Firewire drive is on a SCSI chain so the software can recognize the drive.
Geesh... if we could just throw in parallel and USB, I think we'd have all the major protocols just to get firewire to work...
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