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 Owc (other World) Hard Drives, Does anyone own one? |
  Tue 28 Sep 2004, 18:56
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 Newbie Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 08-Jun 04 From: Playa Vista - US Member No.: 44,753  |
Any thoughts on these hard drives?
I just ordered one because it comes with Dantz Retrospect and it seems to have a better rep. then Maxtor.... |
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Tue 28 Sep 2004, 20:17
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Rookie  Group: Members Posts: 36 Joined: 16-Dec 03 From: Los Angeles - US Member No.: 31,267 |
I find that as long as I don't use Maxtor drives, then everything works fine. If the drive you are buying is for audio use, just make sure it has an 8 MB cache and not 2, it will perform better that way.
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Wed 29 Sep 2004, 02:00
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Member Group: Members Posts: 79 Joined: 15-Jan 04 From: Chicago - US Member No.: 33,284 |
I have a 120 Gig OWC Mercury Elite Pro Firewire 800 drive I have been using for about 6 months now. It is the fastest and quietest hard drive I have ever used. Also just about the cheapest hard drive I have ever bought.
I have been using it as a recording drive with a Pro Tools Digi002 rack on my Aluminum Powerbook, and it has been absolutely trouble free. I haven't really tried it with more than about 10 tracks, but it has handled everything I have thrown at it without slowdowns or hangups. I recommend them highly. On the Retrospect part, it's actually Retrospect Express, a non-network "lite" version of the full Retrospect application. It's pretty much the same as LaCie's free "Silverkeeper" backup software (available at lacie.com), which I use at work to backup external drives to internal drives and vice-versa. it works for simple scheduled backups very well. This post has been edited by PristineRec: Wed 29 Sep 2004, 02:04 |
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Wed 29 Sep 2004, 02:58
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 235 Joined: 25-Jul 02 From: Strongsville - US Member No.: 6,217 |
I have an 80 gig OWC Mercury Elite Pro FW400 drive that's given me no problems for nearly two years. I chose OWC based on the research I conducted while shopping around. They came highly recommended and were priced nicely.
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 Wed 29 Sep 2004, 04:16
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 Moderator In Chief (MIC)  Group: Editors Posts: 15,189 Joined: 23-Dec 01 From: Paris - FR Member No.: 2,758 |
Mhmm good news, Soif and me were lurking in their direction as the price for ICE enclosure is sweety
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