i would never buy a drive without knowing who actually made the thing, there's far too much trash out there to trust vendors who don't think you need to know, it's a bad business practice and such companies should not be dealt with. i'd also suggest trying other vendors, dirtcheapdrives.com is one good one. shop around for price in any case. i'd say an external hard drive should definitely have a fan, despite the noise unless it's going to be in a well air conditioned room and you are not going to put anything on top of it and are going to leave plenty of air space around it. i'm assuming you're talking about a firewire drive? note that you can buy the case and firewire interface part separate from the drive so you can "roll your own". i've never been impressed by club mac, and they'll send you flyers forever, if you aren't careful they'll also send you their club pc (or whatever they call it) flyers, it's the same outfit with several fronts.
Tom Baker wrote: > > I need extra storage for my G4 733, and decided to go for a 120 MB external > firewire drive. > > So I'm trying to decide between one sold by ClubMac and another by > Otherworld Computing. The links are > http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=3816&Item=OWCMEFW120GB and > http://www.clubmac.com/clubmac/shop/detail.asp?dpno=505565 > > The Otherworld drive uses an IBM DeskStar 120GXP 7200rpm 8.5ms 2MB Cache > ATA/100. > > Club Mac doesn't say what's in theirs e4xcept that it's also 7200 rpm > > The ClubMac drive is $259 and the Otherworld drive is $280. ------ -- As has sadly been recently documented once again, there are three major gangs, the crips, the bloods and the badges, watch out for the badges..... -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> 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-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
