Still no success here As we have reported before, we have never been able to startup from an external FireWire drive using Mac OS X. The drive mounts perfectly as an external drive; it just will not ...

I haven't had an external drive since I stopped using my SCSI tower about five years ago. Since then I've tolerated the acceptable speeds of IDE for the tradeoff in large amounts of storage. As my box ...

Earlier, we published a tutorial explaining how to clone the Tiger installer DVD to an external FireWire drive. In that tutorial, we suggested that while you're doing this you should also have a ...

Mac users are roaring in rage because of a nasty installment glitch that erases data on external hard drives. After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.3, better known as Panther, they are finding external ...

Hello,<BR><BR>My company has recently bought a pair of 200GB external hard drives (the 200GB version of this) for backups. Much to my dismay, they didn't work when plugged into the Windows 2003 server ...

From Other World Computing, some of the first external hard drives to work with the new FireWire 800 standard which promises transfer speeds of 800mbps, about twice as fast as regular old FireWire.

When we tested the first Macs with FireWire 800 ports (Reviews, May 2003), we were hard put to find any peripherals to plug in to them. That’s not the case now: the number of available FireWire ...

Apple Computer Inc. has responded to concerns from its users that Mac OS X Panther disables or corrupts files on external FireWire 800 hard disks. Users began reporting the issues to Apple shortly ...

resistant design for maximum data safety. OWC Neptune External Hard Drive Pricing: 80GB 7200RPM with 8MB data buffer: $84.99 160GB 7200RPM with 8MB data buffer: $92.99 250GB 7200RPM with 8MB data ...

Sometimes also called IEEE-1394, the FireWire standard allows for high-speed connections to external drives. FireWire 400 is roughly comparable to USB 2.0, and drives and ports using FireWire 800 are ...

Years ago, it wasn't that uncommon for new computers or notebooks running Windows to have a FireWire port but as the years went by Mac computers are the only brand that really continued to support ...

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