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irwin
04-02-2004, 06:41 PM
http://www.passwird.com/enclosure/119_1940_3.jpg

160GB of YUMMY! And it's all mine! :D

edit: It just took me over 3 hours to move 9GB of stuff. What the heck? I thought firewire was supposed to way faster? :confused:

edit #2: Weird. I restarted comp and was able to move 1GB in a few minutes.
eSDee
04-02-2004, 06:50 PM
Nice. Is that dual usb/firewire?
irwin
04-02-2004, 07:11 PM
Originally posted by eSDeeLoco
Nice. Is that dual usb/firewire?

Yep. :P
kimchicowboy
04-02-2004, 07:27 PM
pretty lights. hehehe.
Cheesypuff
04-02-2004, 10:32 PM
Um...I think firewire xfers at like 480Mbps, while usb xfers at 400 Mbps

And if thats firewire 2. I think those xfer at like 800Mbps.
verve247
04-03-2004, 02:18 AM
thats USB2 at 400 mbps.
kimchicowboy
04-03-2004, 05:47 AM
are there any firewire2 products available?
seqiro
04-03-2004, 09:35 AM
Yup, I have this Lacie D2 drive (http://www.megamacs.com/v1/index.php?action=view&pid=135712) and it's quite speedy at FW800. :cool:
ramazank2
04-03-2004, 10:17 AM
I have the same enclosure. It is small but it gets quite hot. And it is a pain to open up. Also the IDE cable falls apart. The plug falls off so you need to be really carefull. I replaced mine.
ceeka
04-03-2004, 10:14 PM
Originally posted by Cheesypuff
Um...I think firewire xfers at like 480Mbps, while usb xfers at 400 Mbps

And if thats firewire 2. I think those xfer at like 800Mbps.

Actually you got the theoretcal rates backwards. USB 2.0 - 480, Fireswire - 400. However in a few reviews I've seen that real world performance goes to Firewire.
kimchicowboy
04-04-2004, 03:42 AM
yeah. i hear firewire holds it data transfer over longer periods.
ribitch
04-04-2004, 06:18 AM
anyone know how lacie gets better performance from these?
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10123
eSDee
04-04-2004, 03:29 PM
That lacie drive is nice ribitch. I imagine you have seen the Terabit drives that Lacie is putting out now? It looks pretty sweet but I wonder if with that amount of data if the transfer speeds might not be as fast. I would still like to have one but I was just wondering about that.
ribitch
04-04-2004, 07:09 PM
Originally posted by eSDeeLoco
That lacie drive is nice ribitch. I imagine you have seen the Terabit drives that Lacie is putting out now? It looks pretty sweet but I wonder if with that amount of data if the transfer speeds might not be as fast. I would still like to have one but I was just wondering about that.

i have a client waiting for 2 of them. they should be released any day now. Once i get them in, i will be installing them. At firewall 800, it will be similar to ATA100 speeds. Not the fastest, but it beats moving large amounts of data over a network from one workstation to another.
DankNstickY
04-06-2004, 12:29 AM
geebus. that drive ribitch linked to is way nice/fast. eh... yours is ok too 'wird. but nothing to brag about compared to ribitch's. in fact, sell it.

:P i just ordered a 200gig WD hd for 135 shipped. me so happy.
spigidygak
04-11-2004, 07:17 AM
anyone know how lacie gets better performance from these?
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10123

The high speed is probably because they're Raiding up some drives to get that 1GB capacity.

I have a couple external enclosures that are fw800, just single drives and the speeds are basically ata speeds.
ribitch
04-11-2004, 02:27 PM
The high speed is probably because they're Raiding up some drives to get that 1GB capacity.

I have a couple external enclosures that are fw800, just single drives and the speeds are basically ata speeds.

the firewire bus is limited to about ATA100. Raiding would increase th einternal speed of the drive, but you still have a bottleneck at the firewire bus.
spigidygak
04-11-2004, 02:33 PM
the firewire bus is limited to about ATA100. Raiding would increase th einternal speed of the drive, but you still have a bottleneck at the firewire bus.

Yes but your'e forgetting one thing, hard drives barely ever reach steady transfer rates of ATA100 specs, they will hit it on bursts but on large file transfers they'll barely even meet ATA66 speeds. But in a raid you can utilize more of that bandwidth whether its on ATA or Firewire.
ribitch
04-11-2004, 05:44 PM
Yes but your'e forgetting one thing, hard drives barely ever reach steady transfer rates of ATA100 specs, they will hit it on bursts but on large file transfers they'll barely even meet ATA66 speeds. But in a raid you can utilize more of that bandwidth whether its on ATA or Firewire.

good call, never thought of that. makes more sense now.