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Rachael is a big ball of emotional baggage.

On topic: I don't get why this is geared towards Macs... did I miss something? Firewire ports are on everything these days. HDD's, cameras, PC's, hell even my Playstation 2 has firewire.]]>Oct 30th 2008 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/
What would be nice if they made one of these things which detected whether it used Firewire or USB and ran at 7200 or 5400 respectively (or even a switch?). WD have made that in their desktop drives and i'd assume they are working on laptop drives to do the same right now.]]>Oct 30th 2008 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 31st 2008 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/
The first one I had died and was replace under RMA with no fuss and that one was stolen on holiday :(

I think this might be a good time to get one though. Even though I have a laptop, a kick ass computer (bassically every gadget you could think of except a iphone) i don't even have a pen drive. Ive always detested those silly, 4GB crap things. Too much space for most peoples needs and not enough to be useful. Im interested in a 320GB model of these if they make one. 400GB if they don't have that.

My dell vostro laptop has firewire 800 so this is a clear winner.]]>Oct 30th 2008 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/
Why do they even bother?]]>Oct 30th 2008 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/
/sarcasm]]>Oct 30th 2008 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/
I mean WTF are you doing spending $229 on a drive when you get an extra 100GB for $20?

It's probably a way to get rid of older drives or something.... or they're making a ton of profit on 400GB drives.

Marketing tactics never cease to baffle my mind.]]>Oct 30th 2008 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/
Is that a "1tb external at newegg with usb,firewire, and esata" in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?

* BaBoom, Ching *

Here all night, folks...]]>Oct 31st 2008 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/
We should make it mandatory to get rid of FW royalties so it saturates more tech... but that's just about as likely to happen.]]>Oct 30th 2008 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 31st 2008 4:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/
dr. confused]]>Oct 30th 2008 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/
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October 2008, I purchased one of your external disk drives from Fry's Electronics

I connected drive with firewird. Erased contents after copying contents to internal drive. Partitioned into three spaces - a very large one for Time Machine backyup, a 150 GB for external storage, and a 100GB for a boot partition. Used SuperDuper to put a bootable OS in that partition.

My OS recognizes it as a bootable partition. I can use the Startup Disk function in System Preferences. However, it is ignored on a restart - the system boots from the internal drive.

I have put the OS up there several times but have had no success on booting with it.

In searching the Web I found a statement purported to be from WD support staff that claimed

"This issue is a Macintosh bug cause by the Mac ROM code of the computer and how it attempts to boot from the first SCSI LUN it detects (LUN 0). In the case of the aforementioned hard drives, the LUN 0 device is dedicated to the button board and safe removal tools of the hard drive case and not the internal hard drive, thus causing booting to be impossible."

Is this true? If so, I would hardly call it a Mac problem but you should at least put a sticker on your boxes to alert a potential purchaser to the restriction.
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Dear Hoyt L,

Thank you for contacting Western Digital Customer Service and Support.

From your email There are a couple of things that need to be addressed.

First, If you are using a drive for Time machine, it is recommended that you only use that drive for time machine and not a partitioned space of a drive.

Second, WD does not support or recommend booting your system from external drives. Although this function should work, because of system configurations and setting we are unable to provide support for this feature.

Answer Title: Can I boot my computer system using an external (FireWire, USB, Combo) hard drive?
Answer Link: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1059&p_created=1062104677

Third, As with any Operating systems there are hundreds of issues which developers and end users discover after the release of a new OS or update. I would recommend contacting Apple for support of the issue concerning, booting to external and and LUN issues you may be experiencing.



Sincerely,
James K.
Western Digital Service and Support
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If speed is king and money isn't a factor, get a LaCie 2.5" RAID (up to $700), or an external enclosure from http://www.wiebetech.com and buy your own 7200rpm drive at newegg. If you live in Europe, you may also want to look at enclosure from http://www.macpower.com.tw.

These WD, Seagate, etc. drives are compromises - max. revenue for the manufacturer @ lowest possible cost. Doesn't mean they're crap per se, but nothing to write home about performance-wise.]]>Oct 30th 2008 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/
I'm a Mac Tech and I bought one for a diagnostic drive to boot damaged systems off of to run maintenance software on.

The chipset WD uses doesn't support booting a Mac... and they market this drive as a "Mac Drive" and even have it pre-formatted HFS for Macintoshes. ]]>Oct 30th 2008 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/400 or USB(on intel macs). I don't think i have magical hardware. Not sure what youre doing wrong. Maybe it is time for a career change.]]>Oct 30th 2008 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Dec 31st 2008 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/Oct 30th 2008 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/western-digital-my-passport-studio-now-with-firewire-800/
I always used to be able to boot from my MyBook over firewire 400. I used SuperDuper though.

Also: I say used to be able to because my sister sent that drive flying off my desk whilst it was on. The drive didn't like that... neither did the MacBook which followed close behind.]]>Oct 30th 2008 4:09PM