Firewire optical case?

dlookus

dlookus

Disgruntled user
Hey Folks,
I've finally come to terms with the fact that I can't have my DVD drive and CDRW in my G4 at the same time. Does anyone have any advice on external Firewire cases for either of these drives? Also, which would you recommend I keep in the machine? Is it tough to set up?

Thanks in advance.
 
Originally posted by dlookus
Hey Folks,
I've finally come to terms with the fact that I can't have my DVD drive and CDRW in my G4 at the same time. Does anyone have any advice on external Firewire cases for either of these drives? Also, which would you recommend I keep in the machine? Is it tough to set up?

Thanks in advance.
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Well, it's usually easier to put a drive in an external FW enclosure than replacing the drive in a G4, so that should be no problem. I'll reccomend putting the CDRW internally, especially if it's a fast one, to make sure it will actually run on that speed. On the other side, if you want a portable CDRW that you can use on other machines, you'll have to put it in the FW enclosure ;)
Take a look at http://www.macsales.com , they have a couple of enclosures to choose from. If you put the DVD in it, you don't even need an enclosure with 911 chipset, you could get an older version cheaper with a slower chipset. It would still read DVDs fine.
 
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