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Standard User goldenoldie
(fountain of knowledge) Sun 28-Dec-08 22:40:28
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Portable External Drives


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Being offered a new External Drive for the MacBook and am discovering it's not that easy now to get a Firewire one

Silly questions time

1) I'm Firewire 400 - can a FW 800 be used - this Western Digital http://www.amazon.co.uk/WESTERN-DIGITAL-Passport-FireWire-External/dp/B001NZY2KK/ref=sr_1_143?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1230502882&sr=1-143

Is what I'm looking at and it does say in the Content section-<< FireWire 400 cable, >> I didn't realise that Firewire 800 ad FW 400 used the same cables - I thought the plugs were different.

2) Anyone able to reccommend any other makes that would let me use FW 400

3) anyone able to suggest places I can find a FW portable ?

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Standard User TheHorseman
(knowledge is power) Sun 28-Dec-08 23:01:38
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Re: Portable External Drives


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According to this on the Western Digital site it contains a FW800 cable and a FW800 -> FW400 cable, so it looks as though it would work.

You are quite correct on the cables too, the connectors are different for 800 and 400.

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Standard User goldenoldie
(fountain of knowledge) Sun 28-Dec-08 23:08:55
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That's cheered me up a bit - 'cos I have a Desktop 500GB Drive from Western which I do like so was reasonably keen to get a protable from them .

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Standard User goldenoldie
(fountain of knowledge) Sun 28-Dec-08 23:47:58
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Job done - one 320GB ordered for me and one 500GB ordered for the PC lappy

Thanks for the help

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Standard User TheHorseman
(knowledge is power) Mon 29-Dec-08 15:55:39
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I have one of the Western Digital 'My Book Pro' drives which I use with 'Time machine' for back up. Been running fine for over a year now.


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Standard User deleted
(deleted) Mon 29-Dec-08 23:44:09
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Cases are easier to source, it's not hard to stick a SATA drive in one either. Or IDE (PATA).
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