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LeandrodaFL

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Apr 6, 2011
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I have 2 questions regarding Firewire, as Im planing on getting this drive, cause I liked its design.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/772995-REG/G_Technology_0G01993_G_DRIVE_mobile_USB_Hard.html

My plan is to conect it to my Mac using firewire, and daisy chain with a firewire 9 to 4 cable, to wich I will connect my video camera. Questions:

1) Mac Os puts the hard drive to sleep after some time. When the drive is at sleep, will I be able to use the firewire camcorder cable?

2)Out of curiosity, due to hard drive mechanical limitations to write/read, is a 5400RPM drive capable of saturating a firewire cable speed limits?
 
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