Since the prolific-based 3.5” firewire+usb external HDD box I have is total crap (it often stops and restarts the disk, going readonly and losing data), I’ve been looking for a different drive.

Unfortunately, I havn’t been successful so far. The cheap computer stores around here all seem to only have drives with (probabliy newer revisions of) this chipset… and I’d really like to avoid buying another prolific crap.

I updated yesterday to the latest firmware for the PL3507, and I also checked that the drive I put in the box doesn’t have any errors. Didn’t help. The drive still is very unreliable, in both firewire and USB mode.

Unfortunately, my laptop only has USB 1, otherwise I’d buy an USB-only box which supposedly uses a different chipset.