 Firewire 400mbps Or 800mbps? |
 Mon 26 May 2003, 16:02
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Hi there,
I was just about to purchase a new Imac and a Motu 828 mk11 (when it becomes available) for use with Logic when I noticed in a review that the iMacs only have firewire 400mbps connections as opposed to 800 on the tower systems. So basically what I need to know is will this be fine - and will I still get the best capabilities from my set-up? I also noticed that the new Imacs don't have usb 2.0 - so wondered if this would cause any problems - I'll be using an emagic Mt4 midi interface as well. many thanks in advance! |
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Tue 27 May 2003, 12:42
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 15-Mar 03 From: London - UK Member No.: 14,405 |
Thanks Robert,
no really I'm not looking to network computers. To start off with I'd just have the motu firewire interface and a firewire harddrive and that might be it. Maybe at most I'd have some other a/v firewire device(s) connected to the computer but that's it. I just didn't know what the lowest rate of MBPS I could get away with was. And I'm sure the firewire sockets on the iMac are shared - so presumably 200MBPS each one. I didn't like the idea I might get latency when I'm paying out for a firewire device so I wouldn't get it. But I'm not really up on the data transfer rates and what they meen for someone who is simply trying to make music on a DAW. |
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Drainland Firewire 400mbps Or 800mbps? Mon 26 May 2003, 16:02
Drainland sorry for the double post! There was a problem... Mon 26 May 2003, 17:47 robertirvine The hope for Firewire is to become the media netwo... Tue 27 May 2003, 00:06 rickenbacker Compared to USB, even a shared 400mbps transfer ra... Wed 28 May 2003, 11:31
Drainland thanks rickenbacker!
Yes I'll be using fi... Wed 28 May 2003, 11:58 |
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