On Jan 31, 2009, at 9:44 AM, hart@nasw.org wrote:
> My favorite source for hard drives is Other World Computing. Their
> enclosures never have problems. They have no onboard buttons. Their
> power supplies don't fail. They can boot any Mac. They are easy to
> upgrade. (Compare to Western Digital, and LaCie drives.) Don't get
> any hard drive with a Seagate drive in it (at least until they
> solve the horrendous firmware problem they have now).

Maybe I was just lucky. I've been using Seagate Drives for years and
never a problem, but I have had three drives fail on me during the
same time: One La Cie, One Digital Caviar (Western), and one IBM. The
La Cie arived, I backed up my whole drive on it preparatory to
reformatting my main drive and when I turned it on to replace stuff
on the newly reformatted drive, it went "Pffft!". All gone.

So, remembering past disasters, and reading the bad news on Seagate,
although I think I got my drives well before the problems aroze, I'm
thinking about getting me multiple external drives. In addition to
website and design work, I've got paintings and photos that took me
hundreds of hours work to do.

>
> A 500 GB drive in an enclosure is $139.99.

Are you referring to the external drive at <http://
eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MHU27500G32/> ?

Do you know what brand drive is in it? They don't seem to say. That
always worries me. They don't manufacture the drives, do they?


> How long can you have your Mac dysfunctional before you lose that
> much in potential income? And if that does not compute, how long
> can you stress out that you might have lost everything on your Mac
> before you've incurred that much in doctor's or pharmacy or
> psychiatrist or relationship counselor bills?
>
> Buy two. Clone to one, use Time Machine on the other one. Better
> yet, buy three and clone to two.

Good idea. Thanks.

Doug


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