[MacDV] Re: Buying a New Drive

[ShirleyK]

But watch out for any fine print in their descriptions. I bought an 
enclosure for a 2.5-inch drive. It was supposed to be a portable 
enclosure that was powered from the FireWire bus. The light came on and 
the drive powered up but the drive never appeared on the desktop. I 
tried it on several systems. They are giving me a hard time about 
taking it back. They want me to buy an external power brick, which 
completely defeats my purpose, or else upgrade to a more expensive 
unit. There was a fine print asterisk that some drives might require an 
external power source.

I'm still not convinced that additional power would make it appear on 
the desktop because the drive is spinning. I think it's a poorly 
implemented FireWire bridge or else they are testing in OS 9 and 
ignoring my OS X environment. They have a 15% restocking fee that I'll 
probably have to pay because of that asterisk. The enclosure was not 
expensive ($50) so it's not that I'm going to be out a lot of money or 
anything. But because of they way they have given me such a hard time 
about this for the last month, they have lost a customer. I would not 
trust to spend any significant amount of money with them now.

Shirley



On Thursday, April 17, 2003, at 06:34  PM, Jim Asherman wrote:

>
> On Thursday, April 17, 2003, at 08:35  PM, Pauline Zvejnieks wrote:
>
>> I've just had a disastrous crash of my second internal IDE drive and 
>> am looking to replace it.  Can anyone offer their opinion on which 
>> drive brands they've had the best luck with.
>>
>> Also, I'm going to splurge on a fire wire enclosure for a second 
>> drive for backup purposes.  Any opinions on the various enclosures 
>> available out there would also be appreciated.
>>
>> Pauline Z.
>>
>>
>
> I like Seagate drives the best. Maxtors seem to be good too.
>  Lacie makes good enclosures but don't overlook OWC (otherworld 
> computing.)
> Jim
>
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