[optimal] Re: Heidelberg Hard Drives

Denice,

You might need to BYO USB cable. The 3 drives we have all came with
only a firewire cable, but the actual drive case had a USB port on it.
Incidentally, i use the shipped drives to mirror the boot drive of the
camera (our databases are all on a central server) this way, if the
boot drive fails, i have a drop in replacement. I've saved hours (or
perhaps days) of downtime on 2 of our fundus cameras this way... boot
drive failed? no biggie, swap the backup drive in, reboot and we are
off to the races.


-sandor


On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:37 PM, CPMC Ophthalmic Diagnostic Center
<cpmceyelab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Might have USB, but these particular drives are Firewire connection on both
> ends.
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> Denice Barsness, CRA, COMT, ROUB, CDOS, FOPS
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> Ophthalmic Diagnostic Center
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> From: optimal-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:optimal-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Eric Kegley
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 10:16 AM
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> To: optimal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [optimal] Re: Heidelberg Hard Drives
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> Denice,
>
> We have 9 Spectralis and everyone of the drive we have gotten so far have
> been firewire/USB combo drives. Not insulting your intelligence but check to
> see if the might have USB as well. Secondarily, I second what Michael said
> about just installing a firewire card.
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> EK
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> Eric Kegley, CRA, COA
> Retina Consultants of Houston
> 6560 Fannin St., #750
> Houston, TX 77030
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> On Nov 2, 2011 11:43 AM, Michael R. Turano Jr. <turano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Yes. Install card.
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> Michael R. Turano, Jr., CRA, OCT-C
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> On Nov 2, 2011, at 12:30 PM, CPMC Ophthalmic Diagnostic Center
> <cpmceyelab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> We are not using the external hard drives that came with the Spectralis
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> These are very nice external drives.  Would like to use them for other
> purposes, but they are firewire
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> Can’t just USB them to a laptop
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> Anyone out there successfully installed a firewire card to their computers
> to use these drives as something else?
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> D.
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> Denice Barsness, CRA, COMT, ROUB, CDOS, FOPS
>
> Ophthalmic Diagnostic Center
>
> CPMC Department of Ophthalmology
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> 2100 Webster Street Suite 212
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> San Francisco CA 94115
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> (415) 600-3937   FAX (415) 600-6563
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