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Summary: No good. Lost all my data. Flaky interface.
Review: I have my old income tax data in another notebook drive from back when I had another notebook. This year, I decided not to swap drives in order to do my income taxes.The Pyro 2.5" Drive Kit (1394 interface) was the first solution I tried. Installation is easy and the whole thing was well made. I was using a PCMCIA 1394 adaptor which didn't provide the power supply to the 1394 bus. So I used the cable provided by ADS that tapped power from the USB port. The first problem I encountered was that the USB ports on my notebook did not provide enough power for the hard drive. I dug up a desktop with a USB port and used that as a power source. Then the second problem : while accessing the drive, the system would hang or freeze for long periods of time. It was as if there was a communication problem between the notebook PCMCIA adaptor and the external drive. The last straw occurred when I shutdown the system and then ran scandisk on the external drive : all my data disappeared! I went out today and got a similar product by CompuCable instead and am now running scandisk again. This second solution (although not as well made) appears to be a lot more stable and does not hang or freeze during accesses to the external drive.
Rating:
Summary: No good. Lost all my data. Flaky interface.
Review: I have my old income tax data in another notebook drive from back when I had another notebook. This year, I decided not to swap drives in order to do my income taxes. The Pyro 2.5" Drive Kit (1394 interface) was the first solution I tried. Installation is easy and the whole thing was well made. I was using a PCMCIA 1394 adaptor which didn't provide the power supply to the 1394 bus. So I used the cable provided by ADS that tapped power from the USB port. The first problem I encountered was that the USB ports on my notebook did not provide enough power for the hard drive. I dug up a desktop with a USB port and used that as a power source. Then the second problem : while accessing the drive, the system would hang or freeze for long periods of time. It was as if there was a communication problem between the notebook PCMCIA adaptor and the external drive. The last straw occurred when I shutdown the system and then ran scandisk on the external drive : all my data disappeared! I went out today and got a similar product by CompuCable instead and am now running scandisk again. This second solution (although not as well made) appears to be a lot more stable and does not hang or freeze during accesses to the external drive.
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Summary: ADS Pyro Firewire Enclosure
Review: On the contrary, this enclosure works flawlessly with both a desktop and notebook (requires USB power boost) with an IBM 20MB 2.5" drive. People are often too quick to pan newly-installed products when what they really have are underlying system glitches.
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Summary: ADS Pyro Firewire Enclosure
Review: On the contrary, this enclosure works flawlessly with both a desktop and notebook (requires USB power boost) with an IBM 20MB 2.5" drive. People are often too quick to pan newly-installed products when what they really have are underlying system glitches.
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