firewire drives for 001

I have been looking for storage solutions. which type of drive do you get more bang for you buck ($us). eg. g4533 dp I have seen cute looking, colour co-ordinated glyph firewire drives. But what you really want is the most effiecient. So what is the cheapest solution? caio s

i use two of these for back-ups.... easier than burning endless CD back ups. t.

cool! but what sort of comparrisons are there. are there ant other comparrisons out there? what cost etc?

Based on advice in many other posts, I got a 120G FW drive from OWC computing for $309. I partitioned it into 4 x 30G drives and it works flawlessly. Thanks as always for the incredible help I've received here. Roma Baran

I got that companion Glyph firewire drive for the 001 (one rack space size) and the fan is noisy! I emailed Glyph to tell them and ask them about it and never got a reply. My only solution is to put it in another room.

Glyph: Boo! OWC: Yay! (cheapest) EZ-Quest Cobra: Yay! the crowd has spoken. oh yeah, try a search, lots of coverage on firewire drives in previous posts.

Yes, no question, firewire is the way to go. I've got one of the drives I got from you, where, partitioned into two 40 gigs in an enclosure from Lava, and the other as the second internal drive left unpartitioned so I've got plenty of room for the live sessions. Firewire drive is for backup and maintenance (I move files from drive to drive and back instead of defrag) and it couldn't be easier. Enclosures are cheap, just make sure they use the oxford 911 chipset and some are now coming with both firewire and USB 2.0 ports... 2.0 is even faster than firewire and will probably be the PC standard to come.

Hey Doug, glad those drives are working out for you....