Bus powered fw-drive?

[Toke]

And another one:
https://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10731
Even bigger & fw-bus powered, amazing!

[Toke]

Ok, I got overexcited.
No power via fw from hvx200.
I wonder how much would cheapest battery with somekind of signal of its state to feed the Rugger LaCie?

[Barry Green]

Wouldn’t matter — these drives do something entirely different than what the CinePorter/FireStore do. The CinePorter and FireStore allow for live capture, without having to be recorded to P2 first. A regular firewire drive can only be used for offloading the contents of a P2 card.

So a CinePorter or FireStore would allow for one continuous take of, say, 90 minutes. A regular firewire drive like those Lacie’s doesn’t allow for anything of the sort. It just lets you offload your P2 card contents.

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[Toke]

Yep, cheap battery powered offloading is what I’m looking for.
LaCie’s Rugged also looks like it won’t break the first time you drop it in the field.
Cineporter looks excellent also, if just one’s wallet permits.
Firestore isn’t so attractive to me anymore, since in the light of recent resolution charts, there won’t be much idea to shoot 1080 and it seems a bit funny to fill that firestore at 100Mbps with 720p and have also additional step in the post to remove dupe frames.