Which as far as I can tell from it's firmware and size is a Maxtor 7Y250M0 - SATA drive, 8 MB cache, 7200 RPM. The enclosure is aluminium and fanless, so it's pretty quiet when it's not accessing the disk.
It's also got USB2/FW400 and FW800 interfaces and cables - I've got it on my iMac for now (FW400 only), but a couple of years down the line it'll be nice to move it onto whichever FW800 Mac I've got in the future...
Works a treat, using it as the boot drive atm, but when writing/accessing (reinstalling, for instance... ) it's much more audible than the iMac's internal HD, buried inside the machine.
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Originally posted by LotharSNL
I'd like to buy a firewire drive and was hoping someone might have some suggestions. I'd like it to be fast.
Earlier in the week I bought one of these:
http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=10025
Which as far as I can tell from it's firmware and size is a Maxtor 7Y250M0 - SATA drive, 8 MB cache, 7200 RPM. The enclosure is aluminium and fanless, so it's pretty quiet when it's not accessing the disk.
It's also got USB2/FW400 and FW800 interfaces and cables - I've got it on my iMac for now (FW400 only), but a couple of years down the line it'll be nice to move it onto whichever FW800 Mac I've got in the future...
Works a treat, using it as the boot drive atm, but when writing/accessing (reinstalling, for instance...
Good luck,
Martin.
Originally posted by LotharSNL
I'd like to buy a firewire drive and was hoping someone might have some suggestions. I'd like it to be fast.
make sure its at least 7200rpm and has an 8MB chache. if you have FW800 get that.
Originally posted by ipodandimac
make sure its at least 7200rpm and has an 8MB chache. if you have FW800 get that.
So I bought the right thing. Sweet!
Martin.