Hello Ken

Talk to Daniel Kerr at Macwizardry. He sells the Sarotech brand of external cases. I've had 5 of them and only one ever failed.

My  1TB is going strong.

They come in various configurations for USB, Firewire 400, Firewire 800 and SATA or all of the above.

You can remove the hard drive and fit another one too.

Daniel's details are ; 0414 795 960

[email protected]

Daniel is a great asset to the Perth Mac community and I have no hesitation in recommending him.




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On 27/05/2009, at 5:08 PM, Peter Fowler wrote:

Hi Ken

Can't help you with the firewire but awhile back I picked up a Doro VOIP + landline cordless phone for my other half to chat with her friends interstate via skype. It is still available from Dealsdirect and is very easy to set up and use. As well as being able to use it for voip it doubles as a landline phone


www.dealsdirect.com.au/p/doro-voip-landline-cordless-telephone

cheers

Peter F

On 27/05/2009, at 3:01 PM, Ken Jackson wrote:

Speaking of that..Hi everyone, can someone tell me where I might find a 1TB Firewire drive for a G5 running 104.11 please. They all seem very expensive? Also has anyone experience with a Wireless USB headset for Skype use?

regards all,

Ken




On 27/05/2009, at 11:58 AM, Neil Houghton wrote:

on 27/5/09 8:32 AM, Ronda Brown at [email protected] wrote:


On 27/05/2009, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:


On 26/05/2009, at 6:16 PM, Chris Burton wrote:

Hi Ronni and Sue

Thanks for the reply and its good to be back in the mix. It was
kind of weird not having all the wamug emails daily and it only
twigged a short while ago!!

re the usb drives, I was amazed to see such a large drive being usb powered now. Im going to take my MB in tomorrow and just plug it in
and see if I can drag a couple of files across. Not bad value at
under $200 for 500gb!!

thanks again

regards

chris



Just be aware that your enthusiasm may be curbed if you ever try to
copy very large amounts of data at once (such as cloning your hard
drive!). USB 2.0 tends to choke and slow to a crawl under such
conditions. This is why a drive with a Firewire port, while more
expensive, is a much better option. It is much better at sustaining
a transfer rate.
--

I certainly agree with Peter, I personally would not purchase a USB
External Drive for backup purposes or transferring large Video files.
Firewire is faster and more stable.



Which makes it even more annoying that Apple is now pushing you more & more
to USB:

- Want to plug a drive to an airport extreme for network access - it has
to be USB.
- Macbooks no longer have firewire ports



Cheers



Neil
--
Neil R. Houghton
Albany, Western Australia
Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
Email: [email protected]



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