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?choice of external FW HD's
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Lakeside AZ USA
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I'm in the market for 2 FireWire ext HD's,both to be used to store music (MP3 and AIFF) and still photos from my digital camera.
1) 20-60 GB to connect to my TiBook
2)20-60 GB to connect to SO's Graphite G3
both computers running 9.2 now,will be moving over to X within a few months.
Anyone have strong likes/dislikes based on experience with the various drives out there?
Drives do not need portability,just looking for best price combined with least hassle.
thanks
Caroline
ps I am an "intermediate" Mac user,not a newby but not a major techie either.
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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I've got an 60gb "Mercury Pro" from OWC connected part-time to my Wallstreet. OWC have been very pleasant to deal w/, & I've had no problems w/ the drive at all, save one: the Finder-freeze-during-copy bug in the 1394 bridge chip. This should not affect a new drive. I like it fine, but I kinda wish I'd carved it up into partitions when it was new (know how long it takes to defrag 60 gig when it's 90% full?).
For likes & dislikes generally, I have to say I'll never knowingly use a Seagate, ever again. Ever.
I've had a bunch o' Quantums (SCSI), had great luck w/ all, but I believe they got swallowed by someone. Western DIgital has had an excellent rep for years. Maxtor, OTOH, I know only that they're pretty common on the PC side.
No experience likewise w/ Toshiba & Fujitsu 3.5" drives. Don't think Connor is still around.
On a side note: there's a growing volume of data suggesting that 9.2 is prone to producing severe HD corruption when run outside of Classic. It happened to me, and I will no longer have 9.2 on my computer, after losing my main partition (with all mail & all prefs) to un-repairable damage to the extents file.
You might do well to revert to 9.1. There's a report thread @ MacInTouch on the 9.2 question.
[ 11-18-2001: Message edited by: one ]
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I hate to disagree, but I've had pretty good luck with Seagate, terrible luck with Western Digital, and I think IBM is the best. Quantum is somewhere between Seagae and WesternDigital.
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I almost forgot, make sure the firewire enclosure has the oxford 911 bridge chip set - it's a lot faster.
[ 11-18-2001: Message edited by: bergie ]
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Join Date: Jul 2000
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I've had great luck with the new LaCie drives. Oxford 911 chip so they're plenty fast.
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