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Whats the best Firewire 800 card
I know for the best results with your G-Raid firewire 800 drives (or any FW drives for that matter) one should have it on the separate bus, like buy a separate card for it, what’s the card you guys had good results with.
we need two, one for Mac G5 2.5Ghs, and one for G5 2.7 GhzThanks in advance
Vlad
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I just have the two drives daisy-chained to the main FW 800 port. No problems so far.
Shane Ross
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just picked up a g-raid. i have a firewire 800 port on my powerbook and will never use the firewire 400 port simutaneously. when people say slow down will occur because the ports are on the same bus, do the mean when using the 400 and 800 ports at the same time or since the 800 and 400 are on the same bus the 800 will slow down anyway? thanks.
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If a FW400 device and FW800 are on the same bus, then the FW800 slows down to FW400.
Shane Ross
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so i’ll need a firewire 800 pcmcia card anyway since the powerbook’s firewire 800 port only gives me 400mbps? do i understand that correctly? i thought it was only an issue w/ the g5’s? thanks…
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Sorry, don’t own a powerbook, so I cannot say for sure.
Shane Ross
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If you have a FW 400 device connected to the PB, then any FW 800 device will slow down to FW 400. FW 800 alone should give you FW 800 speeds.
Getting a PCMCIA card can give you 2 busses of FW 800 speed, providing the devices attached run at FW 800. Attaching a deck or camera will drop either one down to the equivalent of FW 200, I believe.
debe
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thanks for the clear up debe. you just saved me $80. =)
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