Drive-ing hard
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 6:56 am
Interesting report to those considfering purchasing the new 200G 8-meg buffer drive on the market, They are CHEAP -- my new one cost me $100 after rebates and other considerations.
There is a catch. Miost computers will not recognize the size above 135GB. That's probsbly why Maxtor supplies a free ATA-133 card with the drive. Mtor also provides software to much with drive tables, etc. so the PC will recognize the full size of the drive. I abhor those gifts because they amount to nothing more than bandaids which can spell trouble later.
I have a portable firewire holder, so I plugged the frive in and plugged the other end of the firewire cable into the PC, and the drive just worked. Besides, firewire is so much faster than anything else except SCSI right now.
Not only that firewire requires absilutely NO drivers. This means it is a "hot swap" device, which in turn means I can plug it into any computer and it just works.
Just a little tip.
There is a catch. Miost computers will not recognize the size above 135GB. That's probsbly why Maxtor supplies a free ATA-133 card with the drive. Mtor also provides software to much with drive tables, etc. so the PC will recognize the full size of the drive. I abhor those gifts because they amount to nothing more than bandaids which can spell trouble later.
I have a portable firewire holder, so I plugged the frive in and plugged the other end of the firewire cable into the PC, and the drive just worked. Besides, firewire is so much faster than anything else except SCSI right now.
Not only that firewire requires absilutely NO drivers. This means it is a "hot swap" device, which in turn means I can plug it into any computer and it just works.
Just a little tip.