[MacDV] LaCie FW D2 vs. Porsche

[Gerhard Kuhn]

I imagine that the Porsche drive having a plastic case is cheaper to 
manufacture than the aluminum D2.

When I got my 80 GB drive it showed as 73 GB in disk utility, when I 
received the 160 GB drive I was pleasantly surprised that it showed up 
as 175 GB.  I am use to buying drives and computers with inflated 
capacity claims ( I know this is the result of calculations based on 
1,000,000 bytes to a mb rather than using the true 1,048,576 bytes) but 
this was the first instance were I received more than I bargained for.

I don't think that  the G3 will see all of the larger drive but I may 
well be mistaken.


Gerhard Kuhn

On Feb 20, 2004, at 11:28 AM, David Crump wrote:

> First of all, I noticed that for $10 more than the 120GB D2, I could 
> get a 160GB Porsche drive.  Why the difference?  The picture makes the 
> D2 look smaller, but the dimensions show that they are similar.  Is 
> the D2 better quality?
> Second question:
> Would my clamshell iBook recognize more than 120GB of a drive?  I 
> remember that discussed here before, but maybe that was just an issue 
> for internal drives.
> Dave.