[MacDV] Re: Looking 4 an additional external HD for my Laptop

[Jeff Fay]

I've owned 3 Western Digital FW drives. All three were pre-Oxford 911 
chipset. All three had their Firewire bridge die within a month of the 
time the warranty expired. The drive inside the enclosure works fine 
when installed as an internal drive or when put in another FW enclosure 
(WeibeTech DesktopGBs in my case).

When I contacted WD to see what options I had after the original bridges 
died, I was told that my option was to "buy another drive". Needless to 
say, the other drives I've bought were not WD.

jeff

Gerhard Kuhn wrote:

> Can you elaborate as to why you are far from satisfied?  That broad a 
> condemnation of a product does not give any real information as to why 
> not to consider the purchase.  With specific criticism others can see 
> if they would consider it something they can live with or never 
> consider purchasing no matter how attractive the price may be.  Do you 
> lose data, unable to capture video to it, unreliable read or write, is 
> it noisy, is ugly etc. ?
>
> Gerhard Kuhn
> suspice at hay.net
>
>

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Jeff Fay
Media Services Technician
Cooperative Extension Service
College of Rural Alaska
University of Alaska Fairbanks
P.O. Box 756180
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-6180

phone (907) 474-5349
fax (907) 474-5139
jeff.fay at uaf.edu
http://www.uaf.edu/coop-ext
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