RE: [OT] Maxtor 1 Touch drives

["Dave Harris" <dh140770@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My friend tried to add one to his PC.

The PC was pretty low spec P3 600 with 400mb of RAM.  We used a PCI
Firewir=
e
Card as his PC did not have Firewire (and certainly not USB2.0)

We had tons of problem with it.  It kept stopping on transfer, then
disappearing.=20=20

We tried several fixes including reducing the packet size and also some
weird thing in the System settings to turn his PC into a Simple PC.

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Anyhow, we finally got it working, but it is pretty slow in transfer,
possibly because of PCI Firewire Card ?

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Personally for the PC we tried it on, I can=92t recommend it, and I wish I=
=92d
just put an extra hard drive inside (there was space)

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It really depends on your PC specs I guess =85.

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DH

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-----Original Message-----
From: UKHA [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 11 January 2005 13:00
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Maxtor 1 Touch drives

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Hi,

I'm looking to add some storage space to my server. Since I don't really
have the space inside I'm debating getting a maxtor external usb/firewire
drive...

Has anyone got any experience of these, good or bad?


Thanks

Andy




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