Owc (other World) Hard Drives, Does anyone own one? Options

[Tripper]

Any thoughts on these hard drives?
I just ordered one because it comes with Dantz Retrospect
and it seems to have a better rep. then Maxtor....

[bobdemaa]

I find that as long as I don't use Maxtor drives, then everything works fine. If the drive you are buying is for audio use, just make sure it has an 8 MB cache and not 2, it will perform better that way.

[PristineRec]

I have a 120 Gig OWC Mercury Elite Pro Firewire 800 drive I have been using for about 6 months now. It is the fastest and quietest hard drive I have ever used. Also just about the cheapest hard drive I have ever bought.

I have been using it as a recording drive with a Pro Tools Digi002 rack on my Aluminum Powerbook, and it has been absolutely trouble free. I haven't really tried it with more than about 10 tracks, but it has handled everything I have thrown at it without slowdowns or hangups.

I recommend them highly.

On the Retrospect part, it's actually Retrospect Express, a non-network "lite" version of the full Retrospect application. It's pretty much the same as LaCie's free "Silverkeeper" backup software (available at lacie.com), which I use at work to backup external drives to internal drives and vice-versa. it works for simple scheduled backups very well.

Ce message a été modifié par PristineRec - mer. 29 sept. 2004, 02:04.

[xingu]

I have an 80 gig OWC Mercury Elite Pro FW400 drive that's given me no problems for nearly two years. I chose OWC based on the research I conducted while shopping around. They came highly recommended and were priced nicely.

[lepetitmartien]

Mhmm good news, Soif and me were lurking in their direction as the price for ICE enclosure is sweety