On 12/01/04 22:37, "Clyde Kahrl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you are screwing around with lots of mp3s and Photoshop go ahead > and get an external drive. You cannot believe how fast photos > suck-up disk space. Also, external drives are faster than laptop > drives. Keep an eye open for cheap firewire boxes as well as cheap > drives in the 160 to 250 gig range--there are internal drives going > for as low as 50¢ a Gig. I got a firewire CD box on sale at OWC for > $50 and I should have got two. I swap in and out of it a 160Gig > drive a DVD drive and some other drives. What is cool is that it has > two firewire plugs, so one goes to the camera and one to the laptop. > > Make sure if you get a box that it supports the ultra ata drives. > > I don't know about how you and your brother share stuff--but OSX user > software can deal with some of that and partitioning can deal with > the rest. Didn't I read somewhere that the FireWire implementation on the Pismo had some bugs so that you would not get the full throughput that should be expected? -Laurent. -- ======================================================================== Laurent Daudelin Developer, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC, USA ************************ Usual disclaimers apply *********************** -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
