I am about to purchase a Powerbook 15 and plan to do some music with pro tools. I am looking at fire wire hard drives. Do you know if there are fire wire 2 drives in the market? Are they faster or fast as regular HD's? Thanks!
They are faster (than USB2 or FW external hard drives). There are many on this site that tend to bash barefeats testing, but here's a link to a test, for what it's worth.
You can pick up FW2 drives at OWC and LaCie as well as elsewhere. The LaCie extreme big disk has an interesting feature: it's actually two hard drives in a striped RAID array with a single FW2 interface, which allows sustained transfer rates much closer to the FW2 theoretical maximum.
I am about to purchase a Powerbook 15 and plan to do some music with pro tools. I am looking at fire wire hard drives. Do you know if there are fire wire 2 drives in the market? Are they faster or fast as regular HD's? Thanks!
i dont think firewire2 has been invented yet. i mean, fw800 is just now starting to go really mainstream. just get a fw800 external and you wont be disappointed. i use fw400 for video editing and have had very few problems. i doubt anything requires more than video...
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You can pick up FW2 drives at OWC and LaCie as well as elsewhere. The LaCie extreme big disk has an interesting feature: it's actually two hard drives in a striped RAID array with a single FW2 interface, which allows sustained transfer rates much closer to the FW2 theoretical maximum.
Originally posted by jxfreak
I am about to purchase a Powerbook 15 and plan to do some music with pro tools. I am looking at fire wire hard drives. Do you know if there are fire wire 2 drives in the market? Are they faster or fast as regular HD's? Thanks!
i dont think firewire2 has been invented yet. i mean, fw800 is just now starting to go really mainstream. just get a fw800 external and you wont be disappointed. i use fw400 for video editing and have had very few problems. i doubt anything requires more than video...
get an empty shell for 80$ & then you can
add in any ide hdd you like
the casing support fw400 & usb2 & works well on
os x/linux/win32
i found owc to be a little overpriced.
i like above approach beacuse i can always swap out hdd's
if i need more capacity or if it dies