Re: external drive to use with Pismo

2003-01-15 Thread David M. Ensteness
Where did you get that info? If it is the case I would like to know about it, and if its not I would also like to know, but I have never heard anything to lead me to believe that Pismo FW ports are not true 400Mbps ports. David On Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 12:11 PM, Thomas Ethen wrote:

Re: external drive to use with Pismo

2003-01-02 Thread David M. Ensteness
For $200 I would consider buying an external case for about $65-75 [making sure its an Oxford 911 chipset based case] and spend the rest on a drive, with $125 you can get at least 80GB, depending on how much you shop around and what brands you prefer you might get a 100GB or so. If you do go

Re: external drive to use with Pismo

2003-01-02 Thread Thomas Ethen
I was under the impression that the PowerBook Firewire ports were limited on speed, compared to the desktop Mac's, so you couldn't really take advantage of the full potential of an external Firewire drive. Tom on 1/2/03 9:23 AM, Ed Zelinsky at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to do digital

Re: external drive to use with Pismo

2003-01-02 Thread Ed Zelinsky
on 1/2/03 12:11 PM, Thomas Ethen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was under the impression that the PowerBook Firewire ports were limited on speed, compared to the desktop Mac's, so you couldn't really take advantage of the full potential of an external Firewire drive. Tom on 1/2/03 9:23

Re: external drive to use with Pismo

2003-01-02 Thread Roger Shufflebottom
At 11:11 am -0600 2/1/03, Thomas Ethen wrote: I was under the impression that the PowerBook Firewire ports were limited on speed, compared to the desktop Mac's, so you couldn't really take advantage of the full potential of an external Firewire drive. It does make a difference - I'm running Avid

Re: external drive to use with Pismo

2003-01-02 Thread Thomas Ethen
I realize that even with the slow down the external Firewire is faster than the internal 4200 rpm laptop drive, but there is also a big difference in speed when I use my external Firewire drive with my G4/933 and my Pismo 400. I was just stating that the external Firewire drive will be slower on a