WD Firewire drives/Aftermarket FW drive cases--MacDV Digest #2647

[Ted Langdell]

Just picked up an ADS case at Frys, Sacramento.  $79.xx plus tax.  The 
WD 60GB is in... and mounts as desired.  FCP project comes up OK.

will be "burning in" the drive in the case overnight to see whether it 
crashes the Firewire bus as the WD case/60GB combo and its 45GB series 
brother did.

More news tomorrow.  If things work fine, I'll probably be buying at 
least two more cases and moving the other two out of warranty drives 
over.

I like the fact that the ADS Firewire cases have fans.  The first two 
WD Firewire drives I bought didn't.  The newer 120GB drives do have 
vents but not much fan action.

I wonder whether that's been an issue here.


Ted Langdell
Ted Langdell Creative Broadcast Services
Marysville, CA




On Mar 22, 2004, at 3:00 PM, Macintosh Digital Video List wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:35:10 -0700
> Subject: [MacDV] WD Firewire drives/Aftermarket FW drive cases
> From: animal <animal at cuug.ab.ca>
> Message-Id: <69FF5F74-7C40-11D8-9A81-0003939DAB62 at cuug.ab.ca>
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> I've had dreadful luck with Western Digital drives.  Returned one.  Had
> to remove another from my G4 (still OS9) due to numerous crashes.  Had
> good luck with 4 Hitachi 120GB's + one 75GB and now one Seagate 200GB
> Barracuda.  Now have the western digital in an old ADS external
> firewire and it works fine as purely a rarely used backup drive.
>
> Lynn
>
>