SimpleTech SimpleDrive Deluxe user manual

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Mac Guild Review Page 1 of 5
250 GB SimpleDrive Deluxe, by SimpleTech

Posted: 17-Oct-2005
4 out of 5 Mice Vendor: SimpleTech Type: COMMERCIAL

Reviewer: Bill Catambay Class: HARDWARE
Overview
Backing up has always been critical to businesses, but these days, it's just as important to the
home computer user. With all of your music digitally stored, as well as home videos, email,
documents, and everything else that you've discovered to be easier to store on your computer,
so much importa

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Mac Guild Review Page 2 of 5 $207 (Street Price range is $180 - $240) Set Up Hooking up the hard drive is a no-brainer. Just plug in the power supply, connect the firewire cable from the hard drive to the firewire port on your Mac, and then flip the switch on. You can alternately use the USB connection instead, but I prefer firewire, and this will review will be on the firewire functionality. Once the drive is connected and powered on, the drive will show up on your desktop - no soft

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Mac Guild Review Page 3 of 5 The design is excellent, but there were two noticeable flaws. While it makes sense that there would be only one USB port, there should be two Firewire ports. Firewire is a chaining protocol, meaning that you can chain firewire devices all to a single firewire port. I rarely see an external firewire drive with only one port, and this is one of the exceptions. Without that 2nd port, I cannot hook up another firewire drive, or any other firewire device, unless I hav

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Mac Guild Review Page 4 of 5 After several weeks of use under close scrutiny, the drive performed reliably and consistently. Data transfers were always accurate, even on the large copies. I was very pleased with the performance, and developed confidence in the drive, which is important when you are using the drive to back up precious data files (such as pictures, home videos, or your music library). One of the selling points of the SimpleDrive is the "One-Click" backup, but the software

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Mac Guild Review Page 5 of 5 l Only one firewire port l "One-Touch" action not included in package for Mac users l Awkward designed power plug Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 Mice http://mac-guild.org/reviews/review326.html 10/17/2005