-
eSATA or FW800?
Trying to decide whether to spend the time installing an eSATA extender cable or just plug in a FW800 into my 2007 Mac Pro.
It’s a 2-drive external RAID 1 that will be used for MOV files recorded from HDV in Adobe OnLocation.
Any major difference in the two interfaces for this kind of use?
-
2 Replies
-
eSATA is faster, but HDV is a very low bandwidth codec, so you wont see performance difference between eSATA and FW800 for your application. FW800 40MB/sec is more than fast enough for HDV
Bob Zelin
-
What Bob said + FW is hot plug-able so you don’t have to shut down between drive swaps.
C
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up