[MacDV] Re: Hard drives

[Erica Sadun]

I've had good experiences just sticking a high-quality
drive (like the Seagate 'cudas) into vanilla FW 911
enclosures.

-- Erica



At 2:59 PM -0800 10/13/03, Jeff Fay wrote:
>I've had good luck with WiebeTech FW drives.
>
>http://www.wiebetech.com
>
>On the other hand, I've had bad experiences with Western Digital FW 
>drives. I've had three different ones that all had their FW bridge 
>go bad. The drive inside was fine - only the bridge died. One of 
>those drives now lives happily and productively inside a WiebeTech 
>enclosure; the other two are now internal drives.
>
>In short: WiebeTech - YES!  Western Digital - NO!!!
>
>just my .02
>
>Jeff
>
>Spud0812 at aol.com wrote:
>
>>Can anyone recommend a good FW hard drive? Im having nothing but 
>>problems with my LaCie drives....something easy to use, dependable, 
>>plug and play?
>>thanks!