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SimpleTech Duo Pro Hard Drive Offers Do-All Quad I/O Interface
With its 1 Terabyte capacity (pre-formatting, 500 GB and 750 GB are also offered), the Duo Pro drive has ample capacity to accommodate Time Machine backups for a long time for most users. The 500 GB drive I’ve been using with Time Machine for the past year still has more than 200 GB free space.
However, that drive, a SimpleDrive Pininfarina unit, has a couple of shortcomings: first mine is USB 2 only (a USB/FireWire version is optionally available) — real-world slower than FireWire 400, and not conveniently and dependably bootable like a FireWire drive would be, and secondly the Maxtor 3.5″ drive inside it does a passable impression of a 767’s fanjets throttling up for takeoff. Not a problem for occasional backups, but tiresome when you keep it plugged in.
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Read the full article here. the USB model the editor is referring to is a different SimpleTech model.
http://theappleblog.com/2008/11/11/simpletech-duo-pro-hard-drive-offers-do-all-quad-io-interface/
Bought one of these drives after reading this article. After it was loaded 250GB of client images, the drive became defective.
I called the company and was on hold in the system for 65 minutes - twice and still never got through.
I finally emailed customer service with the issue and they said they would replace it AFTER we sent in the defective drive.
I now have to purchase another drive to put the 250GB of information on until I receive the replacement drive.
Wish I would have stuck with a more tested product.
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