………yes another External Hard Disk Drive.
After the woe that was Western Digital and the My Book Studio annoyanceware it’s the turn of Freecom.
Now I’m a fan of Freecom drive, they’re well build, look nice (sort of fit in to an Apple look being Aluminium) and of course have lovely firewire built in. So after an Epic with Amazon it eventually arrived.
First task, Format: works o.k.
Second task, Copy Data from RAID drive: worked fine
Third task, Copy Data from other volumes: Fail
And fail it did, it reintroduced me to the Apple Black Screen of Death. Or Kernel mode death. It managed to induce that state of deathness connected via Firewire and USB.
Shame as I’ve been looking at this device for a while, it also seems to be in very short supply as well so the chances of getting another are fairly slim. One annoyance is the fact that my data has been on it and I cannot delete it securely. Though it’s currently hooked up to the MacBook (via FW400) to zero out the disk. Currently will take 13 Hours.
I feel the need to swear, but I’ll hold back.