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 Thu 9 Jun 2005, 09:43
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Hello forum,
I have searched through the forum and found some great threads regarding fire wire hard drives but still had a couple more questions. I am doing a project with a friend and he gave me his master recordings on an 80 gig internal maxtor hard drive. I was going to purchase a firewire drive anyway for my audio recording projects since it would be faster than using the 100 gig 5400 enternal hard drive on my power book and was hoping i could use it to back up my powerbook as well. My friends drive gave me the idea of buying an enclosure and using that to get the seperated tracks off of his drive and onto my desktop. From there i was thinking of hot swapping his drive with one of my own and transfering those same tracks onto the newly installed hard drive and working from there. i know this is a gigantic post so thank you for hanging in there with me. Now, the questions: is it possible to use my external firewire drive for working with audio and backing up my powerbook too? Would the speed from the internal hardrive in my powerbook and my external drive be that great of a difference? Can anyone give any suggestions for both enclosure and hard drive? All of my 'rad' gear and software can be found below in my signature. Sorry for the longest post in the history of the interweb and thanks in advance for your time and help.
pandas
This post has been edited by SadPandas: Thu 9 Jun 2005, 10:21
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*2 x 2.8 Quad MacPro, 6Gb ram, 512vram, Logic 9
*2 x 2.0 G5, Everything else.... These lists bum everyone out... ;(
*Power Book 1.67, 2Gb ram, 128vram, 100hd, PodXtPro, Firebox, Logic 8, Live 7."
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Sun 19 Jun 2005, 14:04
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Quick search on google.. cable universeUnder £40 for a fw800 OSX and Wintel compatible cardbus adapter!! Just check with Prsonus customer support if they support this configuration, they may have already looked into it and have specific drivers or hardware to recommend... QUOTE Firewire800 (1394B) CardBus / CBF3100
The Firewire 800 implementation of the IEEE 1394B standard supports transfer speed of up to 800Mbps.
Firewire 800 products are backward compatible with IEEE 1394A devices (this will run at 400)
This high-speed serial I/O technology is particularly great for use with multimedia periherals such as digital camcorders and external enclosures.
Features:
• 1 x External IEEE P1394B (9-pin) ports
• 1 x External IEEE 1394A (6pin) port
• 1 x External IEEE 1394A (4pin) port
• DC Input Jack (Switching PSU is an option accessory)
I would get the psu to save stressing the Mac trying to power your external drives and extra card...
System Requirements:
• Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP, and Mac OS 10.x or later
This post has been edited by ourmanflinty: Sun 19 Jun 2005, 14:14
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 SadPandas External Firewire 800 Hard Drive Enclosure Thu 9 Jun 2005, 09:43 lepetitmartien Don't bother about the length of the post, the... Thu 9 Jun 2005, 15:12 Narayan Hi,
As stated earlier, I am very new to this Mac b... Fri 10 Jun 2005, 03:56 SadPandas How about you start your own thread regarding your... Fri 10 Jun 2005, 07:06 ourmanflinty As far as drives go, most current drives will give... Fri 10 Jun 2005, 07:19 SadPandas Would 40 audio tracks be asking too much? I was go... Sun 19 Jun 2005, 04:32 ourmanflinty 40 tracks at 16bit? or 24 bit? Probably 24. What s... Sun 19 Jun 2005, 13:54
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