>>>Art Coleman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> I am thinking about purchasing an external hard drive for my home
>>

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>>We have been using firewire drives from maxtor for video storage.  You
>>can get firewire cards for a PC then plug in the 80 gig drives .. the
>>cards are around $35 and the drives are less than $400.  They seem to
>>work just fine on win2000 and winnt .. and the drives will also work on
>>macs.
>
>Firewire drive? where can I get more information of it? where can I buy?
>Thank you.

The Firewire cards are from PYRO, the drives from MAXTOR.  I got them
through Egghead.

PYRO 1394 Firewire card 3PT PCI-OHCI 400 M/S Vendor item# API-1394-PCI
MAXTOR 80GB EXT 1394 HD 9MS 5400RPM 2MB 1YR Vendor item# X01FWRA080

Prices on January 18, 2001 were PYRO 65.99 (Sorry, I mixed up a different
card with this one on my first msg :-)  MAXTOR 382.99

Hope that helps,
Joel

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