Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-09 Thread t...@io.com
On Jul 8, 1:26 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 10:47 AM -0700 7/8/2010, t...@io.com wrote: By freezing/lock up, it doesn't lock up the computer.  The copy just stops progressing and the drive stops responding.   The host computer is fine. And when that happens, what error messages

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-09 Thread t...@io.com
On Jul 8, 2:52 pm, Jim Scott jesco...@gmail.com wrote: That's the good. The not-so-good: Even though the fan speed can be adjusted somewhat, my only dislike is cooling fan noise, which they all have. Blessedly, my v3 turns off the fan when the drive isn't being used. That helps. But when

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-09 Thread t...@io.com
On Jul 8, 2:21 pm, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: I believe they suggested a particular partitioning scheme to forego   any issues with size ... IIRC, less than 1TB for the largest. May have changed with a later firmware. Got it from owcomputing on or   about August 2009.

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 9, 2010, at 7:55 AM, t...@io.com wrote: Anyway, that's all a long way of saying: where do I find the system log? Would it make sense to check it in a terminal window? I'm a reasonable Unix user (nothing resembling a Unix administrator though). Does the Unix on OSX have vi?

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 9, 2010, at 7:55 AM, t...@io.com wrote: I'm a reasonable Unix user (nothing resembling a Unix administrator though). A good book to find, if you want is O'Reilly's Mac OSX for Unix Geeks, http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003562 which may be generally useful, albeit quite old.

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-09 Thread Dan
At 7:55 AM -0700 7/9/2010, t...@io.com wrote: On Jul 8, 1:26 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 10:47 AM -0700 7/8/2010, t...@io.com wrote: By freezing/lock up, it doesn't lock up the computer. The copy just stops progressing and the drive stops responding. The host computer is

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-09 Thread t...@io.com
On Jul 9, 10:07 am, t...@io.com t...@io.com wrote: On Jul 8, 2:21 pm, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: I believe they suggested a particular partitioning scheme to forego   any issues with size ... IIRC, less than 1TB for the largest. May have changed with a later firmware.

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-09 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Jul 8, 10:47 am, t...@io.com t...@io.com wrote: Would anyone care to share their experiences with Newer Technology's MiniStack?  Specifically version 2.5? I have three (actually now four) two 2.5 Mini stacks and whatever version came before that. I boot from the older one (80 G) and have

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-09 Thread t...@io.com
On Jul 9, 12:54 pm, Cliff Rediger redicl...@yahoo.com wrote: In general they work for me, but I'm interested in the problem you report. Here's my version. I've been using the 1T drive mostly to boot from when doing AV big file stuff so that I'd have sufficient scratch disc space.

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-09 Thread Brian Christmas
I've got three Ministacks, each with a Seagate 1.5 Tb drive. About 6 months old, with no problems. I bought several other fanless cases with Firewire 800 and usb 2, but the 1.5's were running too hot, and doing things like freezing the iMac on bootup, or freezing during long writes, when the

MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-08 Thread t...@io.com
Would anyone care to share their experiences with Newer Technology's MiniStack? Specifically version 2.5? I'm considering buying one, but I've occasionally run into a specific problem with external drive enclosures, and so I like to check others' experiences first. The problem I've seen with

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-08 Thread Dan
At 10:47 AM -0700 7/8/2010, t...@io.com wrote: By freezing/lock up, it doesn't lock up the computer. The copy just stops progressing and the drive stops responding. The host computer is fine. And when that happens, what error messages are being thrown in the system log? OS X rarely does

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-08 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jul 8, 2010, at 1:47 PM, t...@io.com wrote: Would anyone care to share their experiences with Newer Technology's MiniStack? Specifically version 2.5? I've been using the ministack 2.5 with a 1.5TB SATA Seagate drive in it for CCC backups for awhile now, without issue. I believe they

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-08 Thread Jim Scott
I've got 4 different MiniStacks, all of which I bought from OWC as bare refurbs without a hard drive in them. Three are v2.5 models, IIRC. I like the fact they turn on and off with the Mac. I also appreciate all the ports and the special connector cables NewerTech includes. I especially like

RE: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-08 Thread Stewie de Young
Would anyone care to share their experiences with Newer Technology's MiniStack? Specifically version 2.5? I'm considering buying one, but I've occasionally run into a specific problem with external drive enclosures, and so I like to check others' experiences first. The problem I've

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Mine has locked up (I had to unplug it and re-plug it) and sometimes whenever I tried to copy stuff to it, my Mac had a window pop-up with a sad old world mac logo and it said The hard drive you are trying to copy to is being an asshole. Kick it so it can work. I made this dialog window possible

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
It said the external drive was having connectivity problems I replaced the cable. nothing. I replaced the entire thing later, everything was okay. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4,