What is it Firewire?

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Spirit
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Post by Spirit »

Which one ? I'm in the market for one right now and am thinking about an external Lacie 80Gb on Firewire....
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Another distinction between Firewire and USB: USB is handled by the driver (read cpu/memory/latency/...) while the controller handles most of the load for Firewire, saving resources for other critical work.
Most benchmarks talk about bandwidth numbers, someone should compare cpu loads during those transfers...
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THAT'S an important distinction!
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Post by darkrezin »

Spirit - I personally went a cheapskate route and bought a generic Firewire IDE enclosure and put a 120gb drive inside. Works great, although it could probably be better. Some of the Lacie ones are nice, although a little more expensive. If money is no object, Glyph makes nice stuff too.

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Imho it's a good tip from dArKr3zIn to go with some generic enclosure and put your favourite disk in.
I don't know of any 'native' firewire controlled drives, they all use IDE to FW boards :smile:

my 2 cents, Tom
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http://www.helios.nl/productinfo/tcelec ... ore_fw.htm
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