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 Mon 2 Oct 2006, 15:59
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Hi,
I'm thinking of buying a 17" MacbookPro maxed out with 2Gb RAM for use with the new Cubase4 Studio and Kontakt2 sampler + various other VST Instruments.. Spectrasonics, Latigo etc.. I also have an MAudio FW410 interface which I currently use on my G4 Powerbook.. it doesn't give me any problems - as long as I have nothing else connected to either the FW400 or 800 buss. My question is, are the fw400 and 800 connections on the MacbookPro on seperate busses, or the same? As I want to go for the faster 100Gb internal drive (7200rpm) I may need to also buy an external 7200rpm FW800 drive to accomodate all my project data.. samples , audio etc.. obviously, if I did this I wouldn't be able to run the MAudio interface reliably if the 800 bus was being shared or 'seen' by the 400 buss.. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.. Thx |
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Wed 4 Oct 2006, 18:28
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 20-Feb 04 From: UK Member No.: 36,389 |
I know this is slightly 'off topic' but still relevant to my original 17" MacbookPro query.
Another alternative could be an eSATA expresscard/34 for use with serial ATA (SAT II) drives which apparently offer speeds nearly 4 times faster than FW800 - eg. this Firmtek card: http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-2sm2-e/ I also found this interesting review of the Firmtek SeriTek/2SM2-E card used on a MacbookPro: http://www.barefeats.com/hard71.html Obviously, this could end up more costly than the FW800 alternative ie. SAT expresscard/34 card + SAT drivebay enclosure and the removable drives themselves.. but then I would have a fast (and portable) system for handling my samples and audio etc.. Finally, does anyone have any actual experience of using SAT drives compared to FW800 for audio? Thanks |
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tig66 17" Macbookpro Firewire Mon 2 Oct 2006, 15:59
lancet QUOTE (tig66 @ Mon 2 Oct 2006, 10:59) My ... Tue 3 Oct 2006, 12:55 lepetitmartien My only solutions are either a USB 2 drive or find... Wed 4 Oct 2006, 13:25 tig66 Thanks guys for the info.. appreciated - so that... Wed 4 Oct 2006, 15:11 thedomus LaCie Little Big Disk - fast enough!
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lepetitmartien SATA/eSATA is faster than the drives you can hook ... Wed 25 Jul 2007, 01:41 |
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