firewire drive, locating oxford chipset?

[epic41]

hi,

i am a protools le user on an intel core 2 duo imac with os 10.4.8, running ptle 7.3.1 through an original mbox...

i have two western digital mybook premium (firewire/usb2) external drives that work perfect so far with protools, when i bought them it was indicated that they came with the oxford 912/922 chipset.

i just got off the phone with the western digital tech supt because i couldn't find that info anymore and she told me it's because they don't exclusively use the oxford chipsets anymore, they use the oxford on some and on others they use an initio chipset, which is supposedly oxford qualified just generic. so that makes me look in other directions unless someone from digi can tell me otherwise...

the problem is that i am having considerable difficulty locating a hard drive enclosure (firewire) that uses the oxford chipset. does anyone have a drive enclosure that has oxford chipset and what make/model is it?

what works for you?

[The Dougfather]

OWC, other world computing. US based and they ship worldwide.

Cheers

[epic41]

thanks man! is anyone not using oxford chipset and still getting great results?

digi, are there any other chipsets being reviewed? which have failed? it would be cool if that was all public access...

[DigiTechSupt]

There are no others currently under review and anything other than Oxford chips are likely to not work. It's best to stick to what we KNOW works and avoid anything else...

[rabs]

I am now using Avastor drives.....a little pricey but work great....and they have a great reputation (as far as I know!?!?). They all come with the oxford chipsets and spec'd to work with Pro Tools - www.avastor.com

[MarkusB]

i use this

http://www.macpower.com.tw/products/...leiades/pd_400

very happy with it

M

[epic41]

i think i've decided to go with an owc neptune enclosure and a seagate 500gb 7200.10 drive... can't buy till next week though so tell me if im making a wise choice. limit $200 for drive and enclosure for 500gb...