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Summary: Great drive if you get it cheap
Review: I got this drive really cheap from Amazon, it's 30Gb firewire and runs flawlessly capturing video from my JVC 1394 DV camera on my laptop, although it's 5400 rpm it's fast enough to capture DV data (actually faster than my internal travelstar hard disk). Win 98se gets a little messed when connecting the DV camera, makes the drive read very slow but it's enough to unplug and plug back the drive to restore it's performance, I don't think it's the drive.
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Summary: Great drive if you get it cheap
Review: I purchased this drive several months ago and have not encountered any major problems. I have experienced only two minor problems. The first, is that a small amount of noise can be heard when it is reading and writing. The other is that the drive has failed to appear on my desktop a few times when I start-up or re-start the computer. I am using a Power Mac G3 computer which has had the processor upgraded to a G4. I purchased the Western Digital Fire Wire PCI card at the same time as the hard drive. That being said, I had no problems with the installation or the set-up and would recommend it to anyone needing additional storage at a fair price.
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Summary: Lots and lots of space
Review: I purchased this drive several months ago and have not encountered any major problems. I have experienced only two minor problems. The first, is that a small amount of noise can be heard when it is reading and writing. The other is that the drive has failed to appear on my desktop a few times when I start-up or re-start the computer. I am using a Power Mac G3 computer which has had the processor upgraded to a G4. I purchased the Western Digital Fire Wire PCI card at the same time as the hard drive. That being said, I had no problems with the installation or the set-up and would recommend it to anyone needing additional storage at a fair price.
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Summary: Not bad; not that great, but not bad
Review: I use this drive often at school with video production/digital editing work. It's a decent drive with a fair amount of space (although in about three weeks we already maxed it out and had to buy another one) . . . However, we noticed lately that many times it just can't keep up when you're playing, oh say, a movie through an editing suite. This gets rather annoying when you have to get your project on tape that instant and the drive just won't cooperate. If you're looking at finding a place to store files from digital editing (it'll gobble up your internal drive faster than you can say "After Dark"), I'd suggest looking at some others first. But if you don't need it for something quite that intense on the drive, I'd say it was a pretty good choice
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Summary: I've got the external 45 GB IEEE Firewire Drive
Review: I'm sure it's the same except for the capacity. I too had a great deal of trouble getting it to work with my laptop. Western Digital even told me not to stream video to the drive, (no explanation). The problems were with the firewire drivers that were loaded onto my laptop. It is working now and is very very fast. I think that for the money it is the best mass storage solution for laptops that have the firewire port.
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Summary: Not a durable solution
Review: It died just after my warranty was up. Never had a hard drive only last a year.
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Summary: I've got the external 45 GB IEEE Firewire Drive
Review: The drive of course has speed, but as far as durabiltiy it seems to fall somewhat short, but if you like western digital, and you feel that the price isn't too much it's worth it, but you're proably better off looking elsewhere
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Summary: So,go go
Review: The drive of course has speed, but as far as durabiltiy it seems to fall somewhat short, but if you like western digital, and you feel that the price isn't too much it's worth it, but you're proably better off looking elsewhere
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Summary: handy but sometimes clumsy
Review: this is a great product if you have lots of data to store and dont have too much internal space for hard drives. you can bring this hd with you but despite the aura of ease the product supposedly identifies with, it was not detected at least twice when used with my two computers. other than the occasional let down (2 out of 60 moves), this is a great product to have.
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