On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 06:08:42 -0400, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote (in article <1ijmlcp.1qcl9oxqve46N%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>):
> I'm thinking of buy a MY BOOK STUDIO EDITION 500GB because it's the > cheapest 500GB FW800 HD I can find. But I seem to be coming across a lot > of negative feedback, especially by Leopard users. > > Thoughts? > > TIA, > Jamie Kahn Genet > >
I have three My Book external drives, an Essential 750 (USB 2 only) and two Home 320s (USB 2 and FireWire 400, the older version, without the eSATA). All work quite well with a range of Macs and Windows machines. I was looking at the 1TB My Books. The main diff between the Home versions and the Studio versions is the colour (black/silver) the FireWire options (two 400/one 400 and one 800) and the price ($300/$320).
I was also looking at Seagate drives, and noted that the Seagate Free Agent Pro 1 TB costs what the My Book 1 TB Studio costs, but only has FireWire 400 like the Home and ships formatted NTFS instead of FAT32. Seagate's Maxtor One Touch 4 Plus is the Maxtor version of that drive, and costs what the Home does and is similarly equipped. The 'Seagate' version has a 5 year warranty, the 'Maxtor' version has a 1 year warranty.
The My Book Studio seems to be the best deal for a FW 800 drive. My old WDs work fine. Only the Essential is still in warranty, and I've had no problems with any of them. What negative feedback have you been getting, and for which version? There have been at least three. (Two with the circular LEDs on the front, one with the single line LED on the front.)
