For sale is a 250GB G-DRIVE with two Firewire 800 ports and one Firewire 400 port. This drive does not have any USB ports!
The G-DRIVEs use a fan-less design with unique silent cooling technology, all aluminum enclosure (looks like part of a G5 or MacPro case) and has a 7200 RPM drive inside. Below is a link to the company's website that shows the drive and tells you a little bit about how they are made. <http://www.g-technology.com/Products/G-DRIVE.cfm> Here's a link to the manual for this series of drives. <http://www.g-technology.com/Support/Pdf/G-DRIVE-Manual-1207.pdf> Please look at the middle photo on page 5 of this manual to see what the back of my G-DRIVE looks like. The G-DRIVEs are available in a variety of sizes and connection ports. This one that I am selling is a 250GB HD and has two Firewire 800 ports and one Firewire 400 port. I have been using this as my offsite backup drive. I'd bring it home from work once a month, hook it up to my Mac, and run Carbon Copy Cloner. Then I put it back in the box, carry it back to work and store it in our server room until next month. It looks like new, works great, and is in the original box. The only detraction is that I've written my name, address and phone on the cardboard box since it was being stored at work in our server room. I didn't want someone thinking it belonged to my work. I was able to boot from this G-DRIVE after cloning my Mac's internal hard drive out to this external drive. Two things you need to know about making a bootable Firewire drive. 1.] I used this drive on PowerMac G4 so it was partitioned using Apple Partition Map. While you can use it that way on an Intel Mac you won¹t be able to boot from it. If you want to be able to boot from it using an Intel Mac you'll need to repartition it using Apple's Disk Utility and select GUID Partition Map. 2.] Use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to clone your hard drive. Both programs are free to use but if you pay for CCC you don't have to look at the ads and if you pay for SuperDuper you get additional features. I like both programs for different reasons. Both can clone over your internal hard disk and make a bootable, external drive. <http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html> <http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html> The G-DRIVE comes in it's original box, power supply, and Firewire 400 & 800 cables. I will wrap the G-DRIVE box in bubble wrap and place that inside another box for shipping. I will ship it via FedEx Ground and supply you with the tracking number. Free shipping to the 48 contiguous United States. I will only ship to US. I¹m asking $90 and that includes the FedEx shipping with tracking and insurance. Must be paid via PayPal to <tom.r...@earthlink.net> and I will ship it within 1~2 days. Please email me if you have any questions. Thank you very much! Tom Roth Winston-Salem, NC 27105 eBay ID: roth27105 eBay Feedback: 100% --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to LEM-Swap. To post to this group, send email to lemswap@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lemswap-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com LEM-Swap is for buying & selling Mac stuff. It is not a discussion list. Reply to the person who made the original posting, never to the list. Software piracy is illegal and not allowed on LEM-Swap. Except for software originally provided with computers, no software is to be left on hard drives (other than freeware) unless the original installer and password are included. Shipments valued at US$100 or more should be insured, and shipments valued at US$25 or more should be shipped so they can be tracked. See the list FAQ - http://lowendmac.com/lists/swap.html - for guidelines on postings, feedback, and dispute resolution. Seller feedback at http://groups.google.com/group/swap-feedback Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
