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Rating: 
Summary: No support
Review: I bought a QPS back in April, I had configuration issues right away.
I followed the tech support format and emailed them. Giving them benefit of possibly being busy or email issues I emailed four times over four weeks from seperate servers. They do not respond through support.
Now the hardware failed, I repeated the email attempts with no response and have phone support three times in two weeks to give up in Cue after 45 minutes.
Now I have a very high phone Bill coming and a useless QPS device that I will eat also.
Please don't allow companies like this to thrive, which they all too commonly do in todays market.
Buy elsewhere.
Rating: 
Summary: Solid drive, nice extras, good value.
Review: I concur with the post from June, 2002: the original post is misleading and, dare I say, uninformed. All this drive--or any FireWire drive--is is an IDE/ATA drive connected to a IDE to FireWire bridge chipset--no dubious technology whatsoever. I own 6 FireWire drives of various makes and sizes--nary a problem.
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I've owned this QPS drive since Xmas, 2001, and found it to be a capable performer for my needs. I and my girlfriend use it primarily to shuttle files between our and family members' Macs (I've not tried this drive with Windows). As well, I use it as a boot and diagnostic drive.Unlike other small, FireWire drives I've seen, this comes with a leather-esque carrying case, an AC adapter, decent software (Retrospect for the Mac), and some goofy stuff: a suction cup adapter (which does adhere the drive pretty well to the side of a G4) and a belt clip to wear the drive (for those who feel a bit Borg drone-ish). Also, a second drive can be plugged directly into the top--a pretty thoughtful feature. This isn't the fastest throughput drive around, but I wouldn't edit DV off of it anyway. A pretty groovy little device.
Rating:
Summary: A good, small external hard drive
Review: I have no idea what other reviewers are talking about with
respect to this hard drive. For those who don't know, here is
how one of these external firewire drive units is constructed:
1) A hard drive is purchased from one of the small number of
hard drive manufacturers; 2) The drive is placed in the
firewire case. The drive attached to the case through an
INTERFACE cable. The drive itself is not modified or changed
in any way. You could remove the drive and have a generic
laptop hard drive. Any reviewer who talks about the drive's
"interface" being modifed by QPS is, er, unclear on how these
things work. And the mean time to failure for these units
is very satisfactory. "A few hours" as another reviewer said?
Give me a break. I use these all the time at work, and I have
some experience with both the use AND the design of these kinds
of units. They work great. And this particular one is quite
decent. dap
Rating:
Summary: Design Defect burns drive...
Review: QPS drives have a problem. QPS uses OEM drives, they do not manufacture the drives. If the drive's native interface is converted by QPS, this interface burns the drive after a few hours if you are lucky. This usually happens with IDE interface drives converted to firewire interface.
Rating:
Summary: Design Defect burns drive...
Review: QPS drives have a problem. QPS uses OEM drives, they do not manufacture the drives. If the drive's native interface is converted by QPS, this interface burns the drive after a few hours if you are lucky. This usually happens with IDE interface drives converted to firewire interface.
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