[MacDV] Re: Hard drives

[Ann Billups]

This is a little less than timely, but I have found the Fry's generic 
firewire cases to work just fine. I bought a self powered one for the 
original 2 gig hd from my 233 wallstreet and it works just fine. I had 
my (expensive) maxtor 80 gig go bad and on a whim tried putting it in a 
full sized fw case from Fry's, and it also works just fine.

I too have had trouble in the past with OWC. Sometimes they are helpful 
others not.

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 06:00  PM, ShirleyK wrote:

> I can only tell you that my drive, which did not work in the OWC case, 
> came out of a Lombard PowerBook I bought new in June 1998. There might 
> be another case that would work, but I decided to just use an iPod or 
> my .Mac account instead.
>
> Shirley
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 11:58  AM, Richard Gilmore wrote:
>
>> I have a 10 GB drive from my Powerbook and want to put it into a FW 
>> case. I
>> ordered one from my local Mac store but it seems perptually on back 
>> order. Who
>> would be a good supplier to order one from? I didn't realize there 
>> might be any
>> compatiblity issues how new does a drive have to be to work? I want 
>> one self
>> powered by the FW cable and which I can boot my PB from. Also how 
>> much would
>> one cost roughly?
>>
>> thanx
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>> Quoting ShirleyK <ShirleyKat at cox.net>:
>>
>>> Just be aware that there is a 15% restocking fee - even if the 
>>> product
>>> fails to perform at all.
>>>
>>> I ordered a firewire enclosure for the 6 GB drive that came out of a
>>> PowerBook. The enclosure was supposed to use the power on the 
>>> FireWire,
>>> but the drive never showed up on the desktop. They said my drive was
>>> too old and I could buy a brick to power it. Not only did that take 
>>> the
>>> price way over the top, but it defeated my original purpose for 
>>> buying
>>> an enclosure that didn't need external power.
>>>
>>> I had to pay the 15% restocking fee (plus postage to return it). If
>>> they had mentioned that it did not work with some older drives, I 
>>> might
>>> have been more cautious, but this seemed to be news to them too.
>>>
>>> Shirley
>>>
>>> On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 04:28  PM, Daniel Beck wrote:
>>>
>>>> Other World Computing has good drives and good service:
>>>> http://eshop.macsales.com/
>>>
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