Firewire ext. hd

[RJK]

....was going to buy an Icybox but, (NEAR MISS !) ...read comments at bottom
of:-
http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=18340

....so I may get a plain old slow USB2 :-
http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=23677
instead !

....anyone know of any firewire external hd cases that don't destroy the hd
controller, or actuator, or whatever gets destroyed ?

regards, Richard

....ps I wanted one with a Seagate hd drive in it / i.e. e.g. NOT a whining
Maxtor ! ...so I suppose I could buy my own ext. hd case and put a hd in
it myself - her I am ...going round and round in circles again !

 

[Jonny]

...was going to buy an Icybox but, (NEAR MISS !) ...read comments at
bottom of:-
http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=18340

...so I may get a plain old slow USB2 :-
http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=23677
instead !

...anyone know of any firewire external hd cases that don't destroy the hd
controller, or actuator, or whatever gets destroyed ?

regards, Richard

...ps I wanted one with a Seagate hd drive in it / i.e. e.g. NOT a whining
Maxtor ! ...so I suppose I could buy my own ext. hd case and put a hd in
it myself - her I am ...going round and round in circles again !

Don't know about the destroying thing with firewire. Have been using an
older Acom firewire enclosure that originally came with a 40GB hard drive.
Hard drive died after two weeks. Dropped a 60GB WD in it. That was almost
3 years ago. Been running fine since. Running firewire 400 speed (1394A).
If you're talking firewire 800 speed (1394B), that's something else
entirely. No standalone hard drive can take its throughput. The first
comment response in the first link is just glorified ignorance. You can
tone down 1394B to 1394A speed with a registry tweak in XP. Just a variance
of the tweak of firewire users updating to SP2.

IAN was dead right on his tip. Firewire needs little assistance.