Hate talking brands here, but beware of the La Cie units, they all seem to lose their PSU units within 15 months. Iomega has some keen fw800 units and fw 4000 some have both.
Gb On 23 Nov 2009, at 7:24 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Dwight Hines writes, > > <All the external hard drives of 500 gig or a terrabyte at Office Max > and Staples are USB. I want to be able to start up and that means my > external must have firewire. Any suggestions on where and what to > look > for.> > > to which Ralph Green replies, > > <Seagate sells external hard drives that have both USB and Firewire > ports. But, you don't want them. They go to sleep and Seagate shares > the mojo to wake them up only with Microsoft. External drive cases > from > a bunch of generic providers work well. Right now, I would > probably buy > this case off of eBay. It is made(or oemed) by MacAlly. The cases > are > new and look like a G5 tower. Look at: > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? > ViewItem&rd=1&item=350270525756> > > I looked at that drive enclosure, it's very tempting. I even have a > couple of 250 GB HDs in a drawer here, but I'n not sure if they're > SATA > -- I bought them for my Quicksilve 867 though...lemme check....nope, > they're not SATA. > > Dwight: Even though my Quicksilver 867 hates the OWC Mercury Elite Pro > 500 GB Firewire/USB external drive I bought, I actually still > recommend > that you look at OWC. I don't recommend the Mercury Elite Pro in > particular -- this drive is the only problematic product I've gotten > from them -- but in general they sell good stuff and customer > service is > good too. You might find something else there you can use. In fact, > I'm > about to go there myself, maybe instead of asking for a total refund, > I'll be able to exchange the Mecury Elite Pro for something else, > since > I do still need a bigger external HD than the poor tiny 40 GB LaCie I > had to just go back to for backups! > > OWC is here: > > http://www.macsales.com/ > > ~Yersinia. > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a > group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a > particular focus on Power Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
