[MacDV] Re: Hard drives

[Richard Gilmore]

Which type of FW case? They have three varying in price. Thanx for the tip 
about Fry's they have the best selection I've see so far. I didn't think 
finding a case would be so difficult. 

Richard


Quoting Ann Billups <abillups at mac.com>:

> 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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