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 ven. 28 juin 2002, 00:49
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I'm getting a Powerbook and will be running ProTools LE and Absynth...at least for now. Some guys at a music store I am working with are making me think that I need a Glyph drive for my external hard drive. Now, I do know that i want an external drive, because i don't want to tax the Powerbook drive with the audio I record and playback. But, the Glyph drives are so expensive. I just looked at a Mac Warehouse Catelog and saw 7200 RPM, 80gig firewire drives for a little over $200. Won't this suffice. The 80gig Glyph Companion drive is $500.
Anybody using drives from LaCie, Que, etc? Any problems or rumored problems?
Thanks,
Tim.
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jeu. 26 sept. 2002, 17:04
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Just a note to all about an experience that I have had with a particular manufacturer. I have a Que M3 firewire drive that completely failed on me and sent it in with a Que firewire CDRW burner that also never worked from day one. I consider myself more than a power user, but not to the point of abusing any of my equipment by any means. That said, I returned said drives and went on a month long business trip and fully (and rightfully ) expected to see my drives waiting for me when I got back. But alas, they had not been returned and I had to spend two weeks trying to get them to return my drives that they said they would take care of. I was hung up on, ignored, put on hold and argued with at every turn and messages completely ignored from the customer service rep on up to the VP. They had the drives sitting in shipping waiting for approval to get shipped back out, but they were sitting on them for some unknown reason, which pretyy much means they didn't have their stuff together- at all. I finally got ahold of the shipping manager and politely aprised him of my situation and asked him to send the drives out ASAP. I had them in two days.
To have two drives from the same company fail is scary. To have received such horrible customer service is reprehensible. To have a new drive that still doesn't work as well as it could says that I should warn all to stay away from Que drives, even for simple backup. That was all I was using it for and it just stunk.
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 Tim External Hard Drives ven. 28 juin 2002, 00:49 discostu131 First off, im no expert, and i dont really know wh... ven. 28 juin 2002, 18:41 lepetitmartien Hum…
Do you really want to put a foot on the ladd... sam. 29 juin 2002, 03:11 damann oh yes,
a hard drive is a hard drive, a marketing ... mer. 3 juil. 2002, 02:54 Stuartpa No doubt about it at all, you can put the exact sa... dim. 22 sept. 2002, 22:37 rickenbacker It's not true that every hard disk is exactly ... lun. 23 sept. 2002, 14:35 Synthetic Stuartpa has a good point. Glyph "tunes... lun. 23 sept. 2002, 16:51 damann QUOTE (Tim @ Jun 27 2002, 23:49)But, the Glyp... lun. 23 sept. 2002, 17:10 Synthetic hmm... never new firewire drives were actually ide... lun. 23 sept. 2002, 19:48 damann hi synthetic,
please look into this (i'm sure... mar. 24 sept. 2002, 01:34 rickenbacker I don't get p*$$ed off with replies ... mar. 24 sept. 2002, 16:18 Presto Aha! I use an Mbox too. I didn't realise t... mar. 24 sept. 2002, 19:26 damann hi rickenbacker,
just trying to be polite. i'v... mer. 25 sept. 2002, 00:18 Presto I've been thinking. I'm a bit slow but her... mer. 25 sept. 2002, 10:01 beezkneez i don't know whether the glyph is better but a... mer. 25 sept. 2002, 11:42 rickenbacker Hey Damann,
Thanks for the tip. I've seen the... mer. 25 sept. 2002, 15:39 damann hi rickenbacker,
the noise is, as with the glyph, ... jeu. 26 sept. 2002, 00:59 lepetitmartien We had already a thread on this…
If you really wa... jeu. 26 sept. 2002, 05:01 rickenbacker Thanks, Damann - I'll wait for the new Firewir... jeu. 26 sept. 2002, 10:37 Synthetic QUOTE Now, let's say you've got 10 Gb free... jeu. 26 sept. 2002, 19:52 damann regarding that last quote.
don't use your inte... ven. 27 sept. 2002, 02:53 Presto "...noticed that some recordings seemed to ha... ven. 27 sept. 2002, 15:44 Synthetic sometimes its hard to just look at some stats to d... ven. 27 sept. 2002, 17:07 rickenbacker Synthetic has got it exactly right - home recordis... sam. 28 sept. 2002, 11:14 fromage Pardon the warming-up of leftovers from the back o... lun. 2 déc. 2002, 12:31 Presto I've just got an 80Gb MacWay FW Icebox. It... lun. 2 déc. 2002, 17:36 Levon River If I've posted this before, it bears repeating... mar. 3 déc. 2002, 01:22 Presto Had a look - as far as I can see and read its the ... mar. 3 déc. 2002, 12:15 Teiwaz Hmmm...I know this is an old thread, but I must sa... mer. 4 déc. 2002, 17:26
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