[FW] Who makes a good drive and/or case

[Eugene Gierson]

I have a firewire drive from
www.OtherWorldComputing.com
& it seems fine.
I got it about a year ago.
They do tell the customer
that the chipset is the good one
ie: the oxford 911 chipset.
Is 911 the correct number?
I think  that Oxford is correct.

Generally Other World gets good reviews,
but they are not perfect [is any company?]

I think that they sell separate firewire cases.

hth


Steven Rogers wrote:
> I've got a firewire drive from ProMax that's a couple of years old that 
> I'm having trouble with. It started as  just being difficult to mount, 
> and progressed to occasionally locking up (the yellow light comes on 
> solid) and making strange head-moving sounds when nothing is being 
> written to the disk. Its not corrupting any data though. I suspect the 
> bridge, as its an IBM drive inside without a ton of use.
> 
> I wanted to pick up another firewire case to try to determine whether 
> the bridge or the drive itself is hosed, but when I started looking 
> around, I couldn't find much that looked decent. Lots of manufacturers 
> that I've never heard of that don't mention which chipset they're using, 
> etc.
> 
> Any thoughts on manufacturers to try or avoid?
> Thanks,
> SR

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