At the moment i see FW800 hard drives but why have we not seen optical drives?
Can anybody tell me if there are any anyway?
Can anybody tell me if there are any anyway?
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Why are there no FW800 drives to buy
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Re: Why are there no FW800 drives to buy
I assume a big part of the reason is that most optical drives have a transfer rate well below even 50MB/s (even a 52x CD is only theoretically at 8MB/s), so there's absolutely no need for the bandwidth that FW800 provides.
Re: Why are there no FW800 drives to buy
-CrackedButter
It wouldn't be practical as it is not possible to spin a CD fast enough to saturate your transfer wire (FW400) to the point of requiring FW800.
The only way I can think of to break that barrier is to come out with 'wide' lasers capable of reading many - if not all CD tracks at once.
-CrackedButter
It wouldn't be practical as it is not possible to spin a CD fast enough to saturate your transfer wire (FW400) to the point of requiring FW800.
The only way I can think of to break that barrier is to come out with 'wide' lasers capable of reading many - if not all CD tracks at once.
This is good then, i don't need FW800, not for a while anyway.
I'm slowly changing my mind over a PB purchase, and while i was gunning for a 15", i may now jump at the 12".
I'm slowly changing my mind over a PB purchase, and while i was gunning for a 15", i may now jump at the 12".