anyone buy firewire 800 drive?

Maclicious

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Sep 19, 2003

• #1

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

macrumors G5

• Sep 19, 2003

• #2

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

 

LethalWolfe

macrumors G3

• Sep 19, 2003

• #3

Re: anyone buy firewire 800 drive?

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.

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FW400 is more than fast enough for DV editing.


Lethal

 

stoid

macrumors 601

• Sep 20, 2003

• #4

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??

 

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joeyjojoe

macrumors regular

• Sep 20, 2003

• #5

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.