on 11/01/04 20:36, markemmanuel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm sitting here at home debating whether or not I should I should > upgrade to a 80GB Hitachi Drive or buy an external firewire drive. My > past experience with ext drives are that they die pretty quickly. How > is the reliablity of these drives now? Also, how do these drive behave > in a multiuser environment, will my brother be able to see the contents > of my folder on the hard disk drive or can we have our own space? If I > build my own, is there a good bridge and power supply to buy? >
Go with the internal 80GB. Why keeping around a FireWire drive when you can have 80GB in your laptop? If the drive you replace has a decent size, then you could get a FireWire enclosure to keep it as a backup or for some extra work. But you won't have to take it with you all the time. Just my $0.02... -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GIGO /gi:'goh/ [acronym]: 1. `Garbage In, Garbage Out' -- usually said in response to lusers who complain that a program didn't "do the right thing" when given imperfect input or otherwise mistreated in some way. Also commonly used to describe failures in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, or imprecise data. 2. `Garbage In, Gospel Out': this more recent expansion is a sardonic comment on the tendency human beings have to put excessive trust in `computerized' data. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
