[MacDV] Re: external Firewire drive recommendations?

[Erica Sadun]

At 8:30 AM -0500 6/20/03, Michael Winter wrote:
>On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 09:49 PM, Kunga wrote:
>
>>  But I'll be damned if I'm gonna pay more than $150 for a case. 
>>I'll just wait it out until the prices get right. Someone is 
>>seriously gouging at more than $150 for a case.
>
>From my looking around over the last year or two, it seems like 
>$90-100 is typical for an enclosure with a power supply, $40-60 for 
>"portable" enclosures without a power supply.
>
>I've seen the dual-drive model with power supply for <$50 mentioned 
>now and then, but I'm always hesitant to buy something that's half 
>the price of the competitors. Is there anyone who's had one of these 
>for a while who would recommend it? How's the noise level? I've got 
>a couple smaller drives I wouldn't mind putting in one of these. I 
>can't justify buying two "normal" enclosures for $100 each for these 
>drives, but $50 for both is reasonable.

I've got one, have had no problems.

Keep in mind that I'm utterly paranoid about the drives. They
stay off most of the time. (Their job is primarily backup and
secondary storage) And I always unmount and power-off
before rebooting/shutting down, etc.

-- Erica