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-- Weekend, May 27-9 --
[9:00a 5/28] Hot Weekend Deal--Need a SCSI Hard Drive? From OWC's George Cole, Other Word Computing has a bunch of drives, 4.3 GB 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda ST15150N, that they are offering for $79.00 this weekend. "New drive with about 2 1/2 years warranty left...they have been sitting on a shelf somewhere...they are in mint condition...never used...." It has a true 50-pin interface (no 68-to-50 pin SCA card) according to George. [FWIW, I ordered one--Bill]
[2:00p] FirewireDirect Lowers Prices on FW Hard Drives: From FirewireDirect, "The FirewireDirect 2.5" Spark Drive HDD 9GB drive will evolve to a new 12GB configuration that will continue to sell for the smaller drive's $399. The Spark 2.5" HDD 18GHB drive's price will fall also, based on current market availability, to a low $599."
[1:30p] FirewireDirect 2.5" Kit Build vs VST Portable Firewire Drive: From Mike Breeden of Accelerate Your Mac, "I've posted an illustrated guide to building the Firewire Direct portable HD kit. The article covers the pros and cons of these drives vs. the VST versions, how to assemble the kit, software included and performance comparisons. Included in the performance tests are RocketFire vs Western Digital PCI Firewire card performance in the S900."
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