anyone buy firewire 800 drive?

[Maclicious]

I'm thinking about getting a firewire 800 external hard drive. Anyone have one of these--is it worth it above firewire 400? I'm thinking I'll be using it as a video scratch disk, among other things.

[Sun Baked]

Check out www.barefeats.com

He has a test that may show the difference between the Oxford 911 chipset and the newer 922 Chipset

Wire 400, USB 2.0, ATA-133, and Ultra320 SCSI (http://www.barefeats.com/fire35.html)

[LethalWolfe]

Originally posted by Maclicious
I'm thinking about getting a firewire 800 external hard drive. Anyone have one of these--is it worth it above firewire 400? I'm thinking I'll be using it as a video scratch disk, among other things.


FW400 is more than fast enough for DV editing.


Lethal

[stoid]

It seems like the physical HD can't even pump out data fast enough to max out to FW400 standard, so does that just mean that FW800 is just insanely ahead of it's time??

[joeyjojoe]

I just bought a LaCie firewire 800 drive, and it isn't any faster than the firewire 400 drives. Don't waste your money on the firewire 800, by the time it truly gets utilized the drives will be a lot cheaper.