At 9:08 AM -0700 8/16/2010, artemis wrote:
So I'm looking at a few options, the LaCie Quadra among them . . .
After using USB drives for a while now, I gotta put in another vote
for firewire. Even if it's just FW400, it will really really really
outperform USB. Definitely worth the xtra $.
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:45 PM, onelucent oneluc...@mac.com wrote:
These are compact, come in much larger sizes than the early days
and can be purchased with 7200 rpm mechanisms.
FWIW, using a 7200 RPM drive as a USB 2.0 or even FW 400 attached
external drive doesn't really buy you anything
At 12:56 PM -0400 8/17/2010, iJohn wrote:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:45 PM, onelucent oneluc...@mac.com wrote:
These are compact, come in much larger sizes than the early days
and can be purchased with 7200 rpm mechanisms.
FWIW, using a 7200 RPM drive as a USB 2.0 or even FW 400 attached
On Aug 16, 2010, at 9:08 AM, artemis wrote:
Thanks everybody for your advice and input -
I now feel way better informed to make a choice and am going drive-
shopping this week . . .
Dan, I tried setting up a clone and booting it from a couple of my USB
externals using the option key as you
I would also look at the OWC On-the-go mini-Firewire drives. (They
come in different connection flavors as do the full size OWC
products.) I think other companies put out similar ones. The drive
can operate with power from the computer's Firewire port or a
separate power adapter (used
Hi,
Any FW enclosure with Oxford chip set and HDD PATA will do the trick with
CCC. The Oxford chip enclosures will boot the Mac's with out fail 99.9% of
the time.
I'm partial to the Seagate 500 GB drives in an OWC enclosure. but that's just
me:-)
I would go for an external case with
At 4:15 PM -0700 8/11/2010, artemis wrote:
G4 MDD Dual-1Gb, running 10.4.11.
I'm ready to purchase a Firewire external drive to do the CCC thing
and create a bootable backup.
Good.
I've visited the Bombich site and spent time trawling through the
FAQs and other advice, and now I'm more
FWIW, every external box I've purchased over the past couple of years
worked just fine to boot Macs. In fact, you can probably boot your
MDD over a USB device (below).
The MDD's and most PPC machines will boot USB sticks and will boot USB
drives as long as the drive is fully powered
On Aug 11, 2010, at 7:15 PM, artemis wrote:
I have a G4 MDD Dual-1Gb, running 10.4.11. In 8 years it's never EVER
missed a beat and continues to be my faithful workhorse for graphic
arts and music recording. However, for my two original internal 80Gb
drives it's obviously just a matter of time
On Aug 12, 11:16 am, Dale Hoffman dh...@margnat.com wrote:
putting the drive of my choice in them. I've found Other World
Computing to be a great all around source for drive mechanisms and
external enclosures. I've bought a dozen or so of these enclosures and
have had no problems.
On Aug 12, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Al Poulin wrote:
I like what Dale and Dan both say about the quad interfaces. If you
limit yourself to the two interfaces you have with your old Mac, you
may need one of the other interfaces for your next Mac. I have one of
the macsales/OWC 1TB Mercury Quad
I have a G4 MDD Dual-1Gb, running 10.4.11. In 8 years it's never EVER
missed a beat and continues to be my faithful workhorse for graphic
arts and music recording. However, for my two original internal 80Gb
drives it's obviously just a matter of time before they fall over. So,
in order to
On Aug 11, 2010, at 4:15 PM, artemis wrote:
I have a G4 MDD Dual-1Gb, running 10.4.11. In 8 years it's never EVER
missed a beat and continues to be my faithful workhorse for graphic
arts and music recording. However, for my two original internal 80Gb
drives it's obviously just a matter of
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