jeb1138
Carioca
Finally, the article I was looking for about firewire 800! I love the part about RAID striping! That will be INCREDIBLE on a Powerbook!! Can't wait to get my 17"!! Like the article mentions, firewire 400 is already slower than current drives. RAID striping will be SO awesome for the video editor on the go!! My PB800 drive is definitely slower than my old PM450DP harddrive, and my external firewire drive is slow as well. Finally a Powerbook owner can have a drive as fast as a desktop drive!!!! YES!!! OK, maybe I'm getting a little too excited about this... deep breaths, deep breaths... 
From http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0301/09.apple.php
Maxtor was demonstrating two daisy chained 200GB FireWire 800 drives striped into one RAID array on a Mac OS X desktop. Paul Striet, a marketing manager at Maxtor, said that they were not making any FireWire 800 announcements at Macworld other than the "demo car" array he was demonstrating.
Streit said that the major benefit for FireWire 800 is the increased bandwidth. "Current drives are faster than FireWire 400," Streit said. "So even with one drive, users can have a portable drive that is just as fast as an internal drive with FireWire 800."
Frank Gabrielli, President of Granite Digital, believes that RAID arrays are probably one of the best uses for FireWire 800.
"If you stripe drives together you get the 100MB per second throughput which is enough for editing uncompressed video," Gabrielli said, "and you get this without having to spend a whole bunch of money on SCSI or fibre."
Maxtor was demonstrating two daisy chained 200GB FireWire 800 drives striped into one RAID array on a Mac OS X desktop. Paul Striet, a marketing manager at Maxtor, said that they were not making any FireWire 800 announcements at Macworld other than the "demo car" array he was demonstrating.
Streit said that the major benefit for FireWire 800 is the increased bandwidth. "Current drives are faster than FireWire 400," Streit said. "So even with one drive, users can have a portable drive that is just as fast as an internal drive with FireWire 800."
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Foster believes that developers have only scratched the surface of what can be done with FireWire 800. In addition to increased speed, Foster said that FireWire 800 also provides vendors with the necessary logic to be able to control devices without a Mac. For example, a consumer could simply connect their DV camcorder to a FireWire 800 hard disk to download their movie.
Continuing on the lighthearted theme, Oxford Semiconductor passed out T-shirts that said, "Got FireWire?" on the front and "It's like Viagra for your hard drive" on the back.
From http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0301/09.apple.php
Maxtor was demonstrating two daisy chained 200GB FireWire 800 drives striped into one RAID array on a Mac OS X desktop. Paul Striet, a marketing manager at Maxtor, said that they were not making any FireWire 800 announcements at Macworld other than the "demo car" array he was demonstrating.
Streit said that the major benefit for FireWire 800 is the increased bandwidth. "Current drives are faster than FireWire 400," Streit said. "So even with one drive, users can have a portable drive that is just as fast as an internal drive with FireWire 800."
Frank Gabrielli, President of Granite Digital, believes that RAID arrays are probably one of the best uses for FireWire 800.
"If you stripe drives together you get the 100MB per second throughput which is enough for editing uncompressed video," Gabrielli said, "and you get this without having to spend a whole bunch of money on SCSI or fibre."
Maxtor was demonstrating two daisy chained 200GB FireWire 800 drives striped into one RAID array on a Mac OS X desktop. Paul Striet, a marketing manager at Maxtor, said that they were not making any FireWire 800 announcements at Macworld other than the "demo car" array he was demonstrating.
Streit said that the major benefit for FireWire 800 is the increased bandwidth. "Current drives are faster than FireWire 400," Streit said. "So even with one drive, users can have a portable drive that is just as fast as an internal drive with FireWire 800."
...
Foster believes that developers have only scratched the surface of what can be done with FireWire 800. In addition to increased speed, Foster said that FireWire 800 also provides vendors with the necessary logic to be able to control devices without a Mac. For example, a consumer could simply connect their DV camcorder to a FireWire 800 hard disk to download their movie.
Continuing on the lighthearted theme, Oxford Semiconductor passed out T-shirts that said, "Got FireWire?" on the front and "It's like Viagra for your hard drive" on the back.