Best Firewire Hard Drive?? 

 
 
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Folie
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Posted: 25 October 2005 02:02 AM

I just got a 320 GB Western Digital HDD and put it in a Metal Gear Box.  It works amazing.

     
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Posted: 25 October 2005 01:14 PM

sweet, if u could benchmark it w/ xbench and post the results that would be cool. grin

     
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Posted: 27 October 2005 12:35 PM
Folie - Oct 25, 2005 02:02am

I just got a 320 GB Western Digital HDD and put it in a Metal Gear Box.  It works amazing.

Thanks everyone for your input.
I’m probably going to buy a metal gear box and put a 250 GB Seagate Barracuda in it (all for around $150!)

     
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Posted: 27 October 2005 02:27 PM

Link for a Metal Gear Box? What is it? What’s so good about it?

     
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Posted: 27 October 2005 02:38 PM
napierzaza - Oct 27, 2005 02:27pm

Link for a Metal Gear Box? What is it? What’s so good about it?

I was just doing some research about it and found some pretty negative stuff (comments below review). (http://www.techimo.com/articles/i82.html). I’m leaning against it now. Back to the drawing board!
Anybody have any suggestions for a rock-solid firewire enclosure?

     
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Posted: 27 October 2005 02:52 PM

So it’s just an enclosure. Oh, and what’s the last word? “Good media relations”, seems to be an allusion to having gotten the enclosure for free. Sweet.

Looks pretty normal, 50 seems steep.

     
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Posted: 27 October 2005 03:01 PM
napierzaza - Oct 27, 2005 02:52pm

So it’s just an enclosure. Oh, and what’s the last word? “Good media relations”, seems to be an allusion to having gotten the enclosure for free. Sweet.

Looks pretty normal, 50 seems steep.

I’ve actually seen it for as low as $33 on other shopping sites. Looking at OWC, they had enclosures for $70-80!

Did you notice the manufacturer was on the comments list, but seemed to disappear when the negative posts started… oh oh

So, would you buy it?? (Looks like a gamble to me) An enclosure shouldn’t give a hard drive so much trouble IMHO.

     
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Posted: 27 October 2005 03:13 PM

I really never considered it a chancy piece of hardware. I just seems like a power supply, IDE interface and a bridge. If there’s a lot of bad comments then don’t bother I guess

     
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Posted: 27 October 2005 03:19 PM

I read a bunch of the comments now, they were really slagged. Donn’t buy a product you need drivers for, especially for a Mac! But who knows, maybe Macs don’t get the same problems, totally not worth the risk.