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Thread: To FireWire or Not to FireWire
- July 9th, 2002, 01:41 PM #1
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To FireWire or Not to FireWire
Can anyone tells me why, ho, why, no companies are still making true
FireWire Drives... How comes everyone is accepting that fantastic interface
and still, we do not have any drive yet with true FireWire interface...
and I know about drives with FireWire Bridges so....
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- July 9th, 2002, 02:19 PM #2
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- July 9th, 2002, 02:27 PM #3
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As simple as it gets
there is IDE Drives
SCSI Drives
why no FireWire Drives
thats all..what else??
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- July 9th, 2002, 03:58 PM #4
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because the IDE drives are fast enough to use with a bridge board. If a company was going to make a true firewire drive then it would cost a lot more than existing drives and be just as fast. So... Why would they want to? Exactly!
- July 9th, 2002, 04:04 PM #5
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I have a portable VST FireWire harddrive, it's slightly bigger than an iPod and it's 20 gigs. I'm pretty sure that this drive (and the iPod) are actuall FireWire drives. At least they aren't IDE drives since they're too small.
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- July 10th, 2002, 06:02 AM #6
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ok
I agree with you Tk4two1, but I am asking you this, (and I serisouly dont know)
I see UW SCSI Drives up to 15k rpm. is there IDE that goes up to this speed?
And whats the troughput of IDE? FireWire is offering 400mbps.
And imagine the convenience of having internal true FireWire drives in your tower...Mmmmmm..:-)
BTW: themacko, your VST drive is nothing more than a micro drive, exactly
the same thing as what you get inside Portables...
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- July 10th, 2002, 06:21 AM #7
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Re: ok
SCSI: up to 320 MBpsOriginally posted by Sighter
I agree with you Tk4two1, but I am asking you this, (and I serisouly dont know)
I see UW SCSI Drives up to 15k rpm. is there IDE that goes up to this speed?
And whats the troughput of IDE? FireWire is offering 400mbps.
And imagine the convenience of having internal true FireWire drives in your tower...Mmmmmm..:-)
BTW: themacko, your VST drive is nothing more than a micro drive, exactly
the same thing as what you get inside Portables...
-Sighter
ATA: up to 133 MBps
FireWire: 50 MBps = 400 Mbps (Megabit per second)
There would be absolutely no point in making "true" FireWire drives, nor internal FireWire drives because it's really slow compared to other internal bus standards. FireWire is meant for external communications, and it's still the fastest external bus standard. USB 2.0 has a peak performance of 480 Mbps (60 MBps), but doesn't reach the same actual speeds as FireWire.
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- July 10th, 2002, 06:24 AM #8
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It's probably a 2,5" IDE hard drive (such as those used in portable computers) in a FireWire enclosure. The iPod drive is about 1,7", I think.Originally posted by themacko
I have a portable VST FireWire harddrive, it's slightly bigger than an iPod and it's 20 gigs. I'm pretty sure that this drive (and the iPod) are actuall FireWire drives. At least they aren't IDE drives since they're too small.leo at code.coop
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