[MacDV] external Firewire drive recommendations?

[Jeff Fay]

For what it's worth, I've owned 3 Western Digital Firewire drives 
(pre-Oxford 911) that had their firewire bridge die shortly after the 
warranty ran out. The drives inside (5400 rpm IDEs) still work fine - 
one's currently in my machine internally and the others are in WiebeTech 
Desktop GB firewire/USB enclosures.

Because of these drives I don't recommend Western Digital.

just my .02...

Jeff

Tom Nugent Jr wrote:

> I'm one of those "rank amateurs" who's just getting into digital 
> video. My Sony DCR-TRV33 arrived today! :) I'm looking to add an 
> external Firewire drive, mostly for video work (probably in the 
> 80-120GB range). I'm wondering if people can give recommendations 
> and/or warnings about any particular brands? It seems like which 
> brands are available partly depend on which store you're looking at.
>
> For a while it sounded like you had to make sure you got an Oxford911 
> chipset on the hard drive, but recently I heard there's a 
> better/faster chipset??
>
> Basically, what should I know and look out for when shopping for a 
> Firewire drive that will be primarily used for video editing?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Tom
>
>
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