[Hidden-tech] External Drive ?

[David Spound]

While I have had no such problems, I have seen reports of Firewire drive
failures that occurred after Mac OS updates were performed while these
drives were plugged in. The best procedure seems to be unplugging all
peripheral equipment from the Mac prior to updating the OS.

In addition there seem to me many complaints about LaCie drives, though some
report success after firmware updates. Also, Firewire 800 drives seem more
problematical than those using the older Firewire 400:
http://www.macintouch.com/firewirereader04.html

Personally, I have had great luck with OWC drives:
http://www.macsales.com/

David

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on 6/3/05 11:09 AM, Giannina Granata Silverman at
gsilverman at rocketranchdesign.com wrote:
> 
> Hi Mitch,
> 
> Thanks for your email. I was literally about to buy the same drive, and
> now I am thinking twice about it.
> 
> Sadly no solutions from me, but I have heard (or rather read in Mac
> magazines, even last year) that alot of external FireWire drives seem
> to become problematic somehow with the last Mac OSX operating system
> releases. I have been unsure of whether or not to buy an external for
> fear of this problem. Alot of the other problems I have read about
> mentioned total loss of data from the drive, which is unsettling. I was
> hoping the latest OSX releases would help, but from what you say, it
> hasn't. If you do come on a solution, please let me know. I am shopping
> for a drive and want to avoid glitches.
>