Re: I Can't Say That Anymore (aka Firewire Redux)

On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:17:48 -0500, Jim Polaski <jpolaski@xxxxxxxxx>
chose to bless us with the following wisdom:

In article <9qvhf2dva03h1knt2ctkg6jgevpnavoi4i@xxxxxxx>,
Mayor of R'lyeh <mayor.of.rlyeh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I used to say that Maxtor was the only brand of HD that had never died
on me. That's come to an end. My 300Gb Maxtor that was in my Firewire
enclosure has gone to the big RAID Array in the Sky.
Still needing the drive space I plugged in my external drive that I
normally carry with my laptop. Its the same model drive in the same
model enclosure.
Right away I noticed a jump in the speed of the drive. Its still not
the night and day difference that Maccies are claiming that Firewire
has over USB 2.0 but its a noticeable improvement. Apparently my
problem was caused by a defective HD.

Cuss and discuss.

When will you blame the failure of the Maxtor on Apple?

Why would I? It never touched an Apple computer. You're the one who
wants to blame everything on Microsoft. Its not a transferable trait.



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