After reflecting on the iomega review, I decided to get past the past and bring things more current. So, here I’m going to sum up several hard drive solutions of old and what lessons I’ve learned from them. Remember that these views (the whole site actually) come from a mac perspective and using pro-applications.
MacPower IceCube
I can’t count how many of these clear case hard drives we bought from Melrose Mac back in the day. They are known by many names: MacPower IceCube, ClearLight, and California Hard Drives. They started in the 100GB variety and eventually got up to 250 and higher. The problem is that there’s no fan. Inside is a 3.5″ ATA drive attached to an interface card converting it to FireWire (and USB) surrounded by a metal frame encased in plastic. They don’t breath at all and they get very hot. As you can see there are holes in the metal, but they are blocked by the plastic. The name IceCube must only refer to it’s appearance. At one point I had a vertical stack of them and the heat from the bottom drive(s) cooked all the ones above it. After experiencing my first click of death I placed them side by side to allow for some ventilation. Read… »
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