Pyro Notebook Hd Kit

List Price: $79.99

Features:

• Provides (2) 400 MB/sec FireWire ports; one connects to host computer, and the other can be used for daisy chaining devices such as a second drive, digital camcorder or scanner
• Small, lighweight design makes it easy to move your drive between multiple computers, or transport with your notebook
• Supports - ATA-IDE, Ultra DMA/33, 66, or 100 2.5 Hard Disk Drives
• Requirements - Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP or OS 9.0, available 1394/FireWire port + USB port for notebooks with 4-pin FireWire
• Includes screw kit for installing hard drive & drivers for Windows & Mac on CD-ROM

Customer Reviews:

No good. Lost all my data. Flaky interface. [Posted on 2003-02-20]
I have my old income tax data in another notebook drive from back when I had another notebook. This year, I decided not to swap drives in order to do my income taxes.

The Pyro 2.5" Drive Kit (1394 interface) was the first solution I tried. Installation is easy and the whole thing was well made.

I was using a PCMCIA 1394 adaptor which didn't provide the power supply to the 1394 bus. So I used the cable provided by ADS that tapped power from the USB port. The first problem I encountered was that the USB ports on my notebook did not provide enough power for the hard drive.

I dug up a desktop with a USB port and used that as a power source.

Then the second problem : while accessing the drive, the system would hang or freeze for long periods of time. It was as if there was a communication problem between the notebook PCMCIA adaptor and the external drive.

The last straw occurred when I shutdown the system and then ran scandisk on the external drive : all my data disappeared!

I went out today and got a similar product by CompuCable instead and am now running scandisk again. This second solution (although not as well made) appears to be a lot more stable and does not hang or freeze during accesses to the external drive.

ADS Pyro Firewire Enclosure [Posted on 2003-04-14]
On the contrary, this enclosure works flawlessly with both a desktop and notebook (requires USB power boost) with an IBM 20MB 2.5" drive. People are often too quick to pan newly-installed products when what they really have are underlying system glitches.

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