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Deciding between 2 External HDs
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looking at Fantom Drive Quad interface (FW800, FW400, esata, USB) at $150 vs Mercury Elite PRo (FW800, FW400, USB), both 500GB, 16mb cache.
Use - 1 for Storage, maybe 2nd for time machine, hooked up to Alu iMac.
Anyone with experience with either drive? Will probably get 2 of whichever I choose, so difference in cost could be up to $100.
Thanks.
Ringo
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I'd go with the Fantom.
Actually, I'd recommend going with a larger drive. You're paying about $90 for the drive and $60 for the enclosure, so stepping up to 750GB only adds $50 (33%) for 50% more storage.
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1.8Ghz C2D MacBook Air, 64GB SSD, external SuperDrive, 23" Cinema Display, Apple Aluminum Keyboard, MS Laser Mouse 6000
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Not sure why, but I had this impression that the larger drives had more failure issues, at least from what I remember browsing many thread titles. Any truth to this, or is it just my biased memory?
Also, anyone have experience with either drive and share noise impressions? After almost 6 years of the G4/933, I am absolutely loving the quietness of this imac!
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Not sure where you got that idea; the larger drives are just as reliable.
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1.8Ghz C2D MacBook Air, 64GB SSD, external SuperDrive, 23" Cinema Display, Apple Aluminum Keyboard, MS Laser Mouse 6000
2.5Ghz C2Q Desktop, 4GB DDR2-800, nVidia 8800GTS512, 42" Vizio FHDTV, Apple Aluminum Keyboard, MS Laser Mouse 6000
Mac update estimates: MacBook Pro 3Q08 (2.6/2.8Ghz+Cantiga); MacBook 4Q08 (2.5Ghz); MacBook Air 3Q08 (45nm); Mac Pro/Xserve 4Q08 (Nehalem); iMac 1Q09 (3+Ghz 45nm); Mac mini 2Q08 (2.2Ghz 65nm).
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WD My Book Premium 500GB (USB 2.0, FW400), best external drive I've even owned. I've had it for about four months and it works brilliant. I have it partitioned half for time machine and half for storage.. $130 in amazon.
TOTALLY RECOMMENDED
You can get very good deals also with the new ones in Amazon 
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WD My Book Premium Edition 500GB
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Thanks abeato6, but i'm looking for FW800. the WD with FW800 goes for $180-200. So far, Fantom Drives at $150 from newegg are the best prices I've found. Even buying case + HD has not yielded as good a deal. And they are produced by micronet, who has been around for as long as I can remember, so they should be good quality.
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update on these drives. Bought the Fantom Drives. Great looking/feeling, small and sturdy.
But, now I am having issues that I and Micronet are looking into. Every few days, i get a lockup that forces me to hard reset. I can force quit, but the application/process will not quit. I can still use safari, but not other things, such as access drives, etc. Don't remember exact message, but i get the error code 600. Turning off the FDs gives me back my finder. Worried about data integrity if I have to do this. Still trying to figure out a solution, but may try another FW800 drive from someone else.
Anyone else have this experience with FW800 drives and Alu iMac 2.4 GHz?
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