OWC External Hard Drives?

This drive is probably just an OWC enclosure around an OEM IDE hard drive. The actual drive component is made by Hitachi (see the warranty section).

I have never owned a Hitachi hard drive, so I can't speak from experience. Hard drive quality is very subjective; I have had several Seagates die on me, one WD, and no Maxtors, and other people have had exactly the opposite.

The design and the price of the unit is very attractive. Hitachi is a reliable company if the hard drive is made by them as the above poster says.

I have a Maxtor firewire 800 300GB that I paid a ridiculous amount a year ago... it works well but this looks good so may be i will order one as a spare.

Kind regards

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I have bought several of the OWC enclosures and added my own hard drives. The enclosures are first-rate and I highly recommend them. Have you emailed OWC to check out what brand of HD they use?

It may also save you a few bucks to just buy the enclosure and add the HDD of your choosing.

JT

Hey, just thought that I would chime in. Im an editor and currently Im working on a Disney film...but about the hard drive...We are using the exact same ones for our HD playback for dailies. And I have had no problems with the actual HDD, but the case is another story. On 8 out of 10 that we receive there is at least 1 screw loose, sometimes its all four. And the tangs are broken sometimes. So I dont know if our courier is just throwing them around (although when they are transported they are inside a pelican case) or if its just aa bad design. But the HDD's on the inside we havent had a problem with and were talking about transfering 150GB of HD material everynight.

I have two of these drives (both 250 GB) and they have been fine. One was a little loud, but then I put them horizontally instead of vertically and all is fine. One of the nicest things about these drives is that they are very quiet. My other one sounded like a jet engine (okay, a little exaggerated) but these are very quiet. I normally just leave them on all the time.