OWC releases Neptune firewire drives – 7200RPM

Posted on 10 July 2008 by


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Other World Computing (OWC) announces two new higher capacity additions to their low-cost Neptune line of external FireWire hard drives. The drives are notable for their increased storage — 750GB and 1TB respectively — and 7200 RPM drive speeds. OWC Neptune FireWire drives feature a custom Oxford bridge solution, two six-pin FireWire 400 (1394a) ports for convenient Plug ‘n Play usability, a 7200RPM drive mechanism, up to 32MB data buffer and data transfer rates of up to 400Mbps. All drives come pre-initialized with shareware/freeware/public domain software and include a FireWire cable, Intech HD SpeedTools (Mac), Prosoft DataBackup III (Mac OS X), and NovaStor NovaBackup (Windows). Available now with the 750GB costing $169.99 and the 1TB costing $229.99.

OWC – Neptune Firewired Drives

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  • Jon Avery

    Be VERY CAREFUL with OWC Neptune enclosures.

    I recently changed four 500GB ATA drives from Ultra enclosures to OWC FW400 Neptune enclosures because the cheap fans in the Ultra enclosures were too loud. The four drives had been operating for over 1 year in the Ultra enclosures.

    However, after two days in the new Neptune enclosures, all four drives developed fatal data errors and I lost the data in all four drives. Coincidence? All four drives? Not likely!

    Putting the four drives back into Ultra enclosures allowed me to repartition and erase two drives, but the other two were irreparably damaged.

    I worked with OWC Tech Support for several days trying to debug and recover but no joy. I'm still fighting with OWC for them to pay shipping on return of the drives.

    And I had heard that OWC had superb support! I don't think so.