View Full Version : A good firewire HD??
hi all i am looking for a good firewire HD, i have a limit of about $250-$300, i was just wondering what anyone here would recommend as a good one for that price range?thanks in advance :)
You might want to take a look at the Big Article List at www.dansdata.com.
He has reviewed several of them, and most of his reviews read like a technical primer as well as a product review. Learn how the product is ideally supposed to work, then learn how it actually did work. Great stuff.
As I recall, current firewire drives are no more than regular IDE drives in a box with an IDE to 1394 convertor. Not too impressive, but relatively fast and portablility is sure cool.
I've never seen an internal firewire drive before. At least not at Dan's. And that's all I know.:D
thank you Monster of Rock for the reply, i checked his site out but couldnt find anything on firewire hard drives!? well i found one but that was it..am i missing something?
welp i have been looking around and i decided on this HD, its ordered and on its way :), does anyone think that was a bad decision to get this one or is it a good one, from all the reviews it got good marks..? http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10302782
heheh, yah, that guy's site is kinda a mess:) He reviewed like a half-dozen or so 1394 drives, but I'm not surprised you couldn't find them! Really really hard to find anything there, but when you do, hoooooo-boy it's a goldmine. Definately worth digging around there if you have the time.
So I hit your link and it looks like a pretty cool drive to my untrained eye. If they have a 5400RPM model for cheaper, I'd get that one, personally. 7200 is better but won't be noticeable thru a megabit interface like 1394. Either way that is a phat price- quite a good deal, it seems.
What are you gonna use it for, if I may inquire?
thanks for the reply Monster of Rock, welp i am going to be using it for 2 things, DV that's why i needed the 7200rpm :) and backup of all my most important files..i lost everything last night, and i mean EVERYTHING, nothing i did could recover any data at all i had to do a complete format :( at that second i decided i was going to buy a large firewire hd to back everything up with..i would have gotten the cheaper+larger 80gb 5400rpm one but they skip frames in DV occasionally :(
ooo, that sucks man.... I feel your pain!:)
Doesn't the (relatively) slow transfer speed negate any speed boost a faster spindle speed would give? I though the 1394 interface was a huge bottleneck compared to the PCI bus. It's only a megabit thruput, I thought.
Of course- faster is always better! <---the OC.com golden rule:D
well to give you an idea of the speeds here is a link to a chart :)
http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-1092-407-6480010.html?tag=st.co.1092-404-6480010.rev-perf.1092-407-6480010
ok, let me get this straight- an external IEEE 1394 drive beats an internal ATA100 drive?
1394 has a max speed of 400 megabits per second.
ATA100 drives max out at 100 megabytes per second.
a megabyte is 8 times as big as a megabit. 1394 could never be faster.
Or am I crazy? Maybe they have some special kind of platters in there, I don't know- either way I think I want one:) That drive looks cool, and the price is awesome. That's like the perfect thing to back up on:) hope you enjoy it man-
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