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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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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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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.
Owc (other World) Hard Drives, Does anyone own one?
Tue 28 Sep 2004, 18:56
