[P1] Firewire HD addition for iBooks

[Christian Dupuis]

On 23-Mar-04, at 3:00 PM, Richard McKay wrote:

> Am 23/3/04 12:12 pm schrieb "Alexandre Leroux" unter 
> <alexandre at leroux.net>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Having quickly filled my iBook's 60 gig, I'm looking for options. I
>> though of adding a firewire external drive (external firewire cases,
>> holding IDE HDs, are sold at ridiculous prices on eBay :-).
>>
>> Does these make a lot of noise? I remember my good old G3 Beige making
>> airplane-class noise, I do not want adding an HD I'll regret!

I use the newer MacAlly aluminium case; it's fairly silent, and since 
the power supply is external, there is no cooling fan to create noise.

Using it with Maxtor drives, it's small and quiet enough to be 
practical. The LaCie D2 cases were also silent, at least the two I've 
used.

Chris