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Re: Cheap Firewire-400 500GB Drive? - Sam3 - 05-06-2008
[quote mrlynn]...
Not bad. The Mercury Elite-Al units are warranteed by OWC for two years.
/Mr Lynn
I guess that helps explain some of the price difference between the Neptune and the Mercury Elite series.
I'm still intrgued by the 1 Sale a Day offering of the 320 GB Acomdata for $69. I don't necessarily need one, but for $69....
Re: Cheap Firewire-400 500GB Drive? - mrlynn - 05-06-2008
Update: The Seagate 750 refurbs are sold out.
However, Dell has the same Seagate (new) in a 500GB configuration (USB 2.0, FW 400, e-SATA) for $130:
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=A0973921&cs=19&c=us&l=en&dgc=BA&cid=30322&lid=680413
UPS ground shipping is free, but Dell charges sales tax, which for me would be $6.50.
This unit has a five-year warranty!
It comes with Time-machine-like software for Windoze (pre-formatted), so for Macs you'd have to format the drive, but that's easy enough.
This is tempting, as it's a great warranty and cheaper than the OWC Neptune (for me $136 vs. $153). What's the advantage of the Neptune? The ProSoft application, maybe. But a five times longer warranty is worth. . .?
Sam3, did you get the Acomdata?
/Mr Lynn
Re: Cheap Firewire-400 500GB Drive? - Sam3 - 05-14-2008
Mr Lynn, no I didn't. They had sold out of them by the time I went to purchase it, which was some minutes after I posted above.