PCA card

[Debe]

Officially, it’s a PCMCIA card, but please don’t ask me what it actually means.

What it gets you is an extra pathway. If you get a firewire bus card, you get an extra firewire bus. That may help alleviate throughput issues when capturing or outputting to tape. If you go with a SATA bus card, you can connect external SATA drives and can avoid the pitfalls of using firewire drives for media storage altogether.

deb

[Cam Trejo]

I’ve been using the Lacie Card for about a year now with great results.

Cameron Trejo
East Valley Productions

[Cromwell Karlon]

Pitfalls?? I thought firewire was solid? That’s news to me, and I guess I’ll be going with the lacie brand.

[Debe]

Firewire can be solid for some…but it’s not consistently solid for all, and therefore, Apple doesn’t recommend the use of firewire drives for media.

And neither do many of the folks here. Some do, many don’t. Some say they’ve been using FW drives for years and have never has a problem. Some can’t get sustained throughput and drop frames incessantly and the only solution is to get the media off the FW drive.

Brands also have fans and naysayers. If you’re interested, do a search of LaCie here and see what the general consensus is. Also try ProMax. Then there are the ones who recommend you buy bare drives from a place like zipzoomfly.com and an enclosure from a place like wiebetech.com and and build your own.

debe

[Cromwell Karlon]

Client has a 2.7 powermac… and they have just about run out of harddrive space… So they just ordered 2 maxtor sata drives 400gig each.

Turns out the Mac is already maxed out in terms of adding
more harddrives… So what should I do?

Buy a Sata card?
If so which one?

And I would also need harddrive enclosure… Which one?

What other options do I have?

[Shane Ross]

Please post a new topic. You are asking this question in a topic related to Powerbooks.

Shane

Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net