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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 8:42 am
by Spirit
Which one ? I'm in the market for one right now and am thinking about an external Lacie 80Gb on Firewire....
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 9:05 am
by at0m
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...
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 11:15 am
by garyb
THAT'S an important distinction!
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 12:25 pm
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.
peace
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 3:28 pm
by astroman
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
my 2 cents, Tom
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 3:24 pm
by sandrob