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Anyone use firewire for external drives?
I am aware that SATA II is it but on a secondary travel machine (a laptop) I was wondering about using firewire over USB 2.0. There is an external drive around here that has a triple interface USB 2.0, Firewire 400 & 800. I saw a while back that Adobe did not recommend firewire but I wondered if anyone had indeed ran firewire over any length of time or if I should just stick with the USB… This is for all SD 3 cam multicam work that is done on the run…
thanks as always for any and all advice… I just want to get the most out of this set up….
SteveThank You for your input!
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Fire wire is better and faster than USB 2. eSATA is the best.
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Steve-
We’ve been using firewire drives for ease in passing projects back and forth. We’ve had no more problems with them than we have with the SATA II internal drives (with DV-SD projects, that is). However, we did have issues with the drives themselves not being robust enough – we lost a couple of Seagate 320’s before switching to WD drives (which, so far at least, have been much more stable). My advice – backup regularly to another drive, just in case.
slainte,
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One reason external drives(FW/USB) aren’t recommemded is the thru-put can vary depending on the number of data streams, over head changes drasticly, FW drives are also device sensitive, wrong combos can cockup the works, also the drive assignment can be changed on a whim by the OS if the drive is removed and replaced, with eSATA the ID assignment wouldn’t change once assigned, if you have a PCMCIA cardbuss II slot there are eSATA(150MB/s) cards made for them or if you have a Express Card slot the same applies except they have eSATA II also
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