Re: Hard Drive Advice for Pismo
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 2:18 pm -0800, Jeff Hubatka wrote: 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. The Pismo's are fine, it's the 1st gen TiBooks like mine that are slower. I have a 500mhz Pismo that is faster than my 500mhz Ti with a FireWire hard drive from SmartDisk. Plus the Pismo has a second FW port... I'm confused. I thought the 1st gen TiBooks inherited their slow FW bus from the pismo, which is basically the same m'board design. I remember reading that the first white iBooks had a faster bus than both pismo and 1st gen TiBook. (Just a pismo/500 here, so nothing to compare it with.) TimH -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: Hard Drive Advice for Pismo
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. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: Hard Drive Advice for Pismo
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 Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: Hard Drive Advice for Pismo
On Jan 13, 2004, at 12:30 PM, G-Books 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=A2 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. The Pismo's are fine, it's the 1st gen TiBooks like mine that are slower. I have a 500mhz Pismo that is faster than my 500mhz Ti with a FireWire hard drive from SmartDisk. Plus the Pismo has a second FW port... --- JSH TiBook -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: Hard Drive Advice for Pismo
Then I'd get an external firewire HD. Your cost per GB is far cheaper if you go with a 3.5 HD. And if you're collecting MP3s then you really want as much space as you can reasonably afford. I'm running with an external 60 and 120 GB HD and there's only about 45 GB free between the two due to my music collection. Jason _ Scope out the new MSN Plus Internet Software optimizes dial-up to the max! http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-uspage=byoa/plusST=1 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: Hard Drive Advice for Pismo
The first question is what do you have now? If you've got the original 6 or 10 Gig HD then I'd definitely upgrade the internal to at least 40 Gig. Exactly what you upgrade to depends on your budget and needs. You should consider putting your old internal drive in an external case if it's of decent size. If it's worth keeping. Personally I'd get rid of a drive of less than 20 Gig as it's not worth the expense of an external case, IMO. I'm pretty sure that you can make folders on an external FW HD that only you can access. Jason _ Scope out the new MSN Plus Internet Software optimizes dial-up to the max! http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-uspage=byoa/plusST=1 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: Hard Drive Advice for Pismo
on 11/01/04 20:36, markemmanuel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sitting here at home debating whether or not I should I should upgrade to a 80GB Hitachi Drive or buy an external firewire drive. My past experience with ext drives are that they die pretty quickly. How is the reliablity of these drives now? Also, how do these drive behave in a multiuser environment, will my brother be able to see the contents of my folder on the hard disk drive or can we have our own space? If I build my own, is there a good bridge and power supply to buy? Go with the internal 80GB. Why keeping around a FireWire drive when you can have 80GB in your laptop? If the drive you replace has a decent size, then you could get a FireWire enclosure to keep it as a backup or for some extra work. But you won't have to take it with you all the time. Just my $0.02... -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GIGO /gi:'goh/ [acronym]: 1. `Garbage In, Garbage Out' -- usually said in response to lusers who complain that a program didn't do the right thing when given imperfect input or otherwise mistreated in some way. Also commonly used to describe failures in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, or imprecise data. 2. `Garbage In, Gospel Out': this more recent expansion is a sardonic comment on the tendency human beings have to put excessive trust in `computerized' data. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: Hard Drive Advice for Pismo
Forgot to include that small piece of info... My Pismo has a 20GB HDD right now. It's an over glorified type writer, music player, and web browser. Occasionally I have used Photoshop. I've started using a digital camera and the music is piling up. I need the space. Part of me is telling me to go for the ext HDD since i can get more space for the money. I dunno. On Jan 11, 2004, at 9:18 PM, Jason Long wrote: The first question is what do you have now? If you've got the original 6 or 10 Gig HD then I'd definitely upgrade the internal to at least 40 Gig. Exactly what you upgrade to depends on your budget and needs. --markemmanuel ___t_h_e_w_o_l_f_p_u_p_._c_o_m_. Markemmanuel F. Rodriguez http://www.thewolfpup.com/ . -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
