[P1] SOT: Firewire speed and external hard drives?

[Jack Rodgers]

On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 07:37  AM, Andrew Nye wrote:

> Not too worried about the Formac 60gig, that has a vigourous fan in 
> it, but I also have an old but neat SCSI enclosure which did house a 
> massive 120mb (sic) drive - it seemed massive attached to my (still 
> working) SE30. However, it now houses a 2 gig drive and has no fan. 
> Should I worry for this drive?

LaCie is selling Pocket Drives and the new D2 enclosures with no fans.

The problem with heat depends upon the drive specs. Some drives can run 
hot and others may not be able to.

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