Re: External hard drive recommendations?

In article <uCUihzaRFHA.2384@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Lil' Dave <spamyourself@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Would like to share with the group an experience. Bought an Acom Firewire
>enclosure w/HD. It worked fine for two months, then quit. Since it was the
>only firewire device I had, had nothing to compare operability with.
>Pulled the hard drive out of the enclocsure and put it on the ide cable.
>Was recognized by onboard bios, but could do nothing with it. Looked at the
>mfrs label on this HD, didn't recognize the name. Put in a Western Digital
>drive, been working almost a year now without complaint.
>
>The reason Firewire is supposed to be faster than USB 2.0 is that the
>communications protocol is built into the firmware, does not rely on the
>operating system. Less overhead for the operating system. The protocol
>uses both network and scsi commands. Thus, the reason I chose firewire.
>
>I would go with a dual USB 2.0/Firewire drive from a famous HD manufacturer.
>If you don't have both USB 2.0 and Firewire, get a USB 2.0/Firewire card.
>Draw your own conclusions.
>"Stuart Reed" <sr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:5Bh9e.39683$pA6.31565@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> I'm a non-techie and would like to have a user-friendly external hard
>drive
>> for back up purposes. Any suggestions gratefully receivedd
>>
>> TIA
>> Stuart Reed
>>
>>
>
>


I'll only recommend an external USB/firewire disk and enclosure it's
made by a name brand (ie Maxtor), it's not used full time (heat) and
the owner has a strategy to deal with the possibility that it may die
at any moment.

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