The Firedock Firewire Hard Drive Rocks *DELETED*

[SHC]

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[Slim Shady]

Oh great, now we'll never hear the end of it from where... I guess it's good that it worked for you, but there are so many cheaper solutions out there, I've never understood the draw to that very limited and expensive setup when you can get twice as much storage for the same price. Just my opinion though, I'm sure the performance is great - different strokes for different folks.

[Chris Coleman]

I've never understood the draw to that very limited and expensive setup when you can get twice as much storage for the same price.

I completely concur with the above statement. I'm not sure you can actually get "twice as much" storage for the same price, but you sure can get more than what the firedock offers...and I'm not talking about cheap drives either...case in point:

A 120GB firedock will run you $300 (and each additional 120GB carrier costs $210). I just put together a firewire drive with a 120GB Seagate Barracuda with 8MB Jumbo cache in an OWC Oxford 911 case for just over $160. Took about 3 mintues to assesmble and it's extremely quiet...borders on completely silent and it is hot swappable (what FW drive isn't?)

You don't want to put one together? Then pay $189 for bascially the same thing.

I really don't mean to knock where's wares, but it just doesn't make much sense...especially when the firedock website states "This is the most economical firewire device on the market." which it clearly is not.

DOH! I just checked and Slim was right... you can get MORE than double the firewire storage for LESS than price of a comparable firedock... here

[Chris Coleman]

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[KatTin]

I just bought a OWC Firewire (800/400/USB) Mercury Pro Elite 160GB hard drive, meaning it has the Digi unsupported Oxford 922 chip, instead of the Oxford 911. Has anyone tried using one with PT LE 5.1.1? I don't use a lot of tracks, plug-ins, etc. I need drive storage for other stuff anyway, but...would like to use this drive for music if possible.

I haven't been following this tread, sorry. Maybe this has all been discussed before...

Hey, wait, maybe I can just use it for all my new GarageBand music!

[sonikimage]

I also bought the OWC 922 Chipset Firewire Drive without realizing the problems. Lucky for me I'm still on 9.2.2 and this drive has the 1.5 Firmware Revision already which supposedly will take care of the eventual Panther problem. Call OWC tech support(They'll pick up pretty quickly) and tell you what firmware revision your drive has. You'll need your receipt though.

Sonik