firewire questions
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Mr Wednesday
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firewire questions
i just bought a 12 inch powerbook with firewire 400. Does this mean that i can't get a firewire drive which is atleast 7200rpm? I spoke to a guy in tech support in melbourne and he said that the powerbooks are too slow to use live with - great. Is he for real? I had no problem using my ibook with live which is a much slower machine. Also did anyone ever resolve the use of daisy chaining a firewire 410 with an external hard drive. Anyone know of the best drive to buy and if i can get one at 7200rpm with firewire 400?? anyone like maudio products??? i am thinking about trading mine in and getting an edirol fa 101 - 10 in 10 out.
12inch PBook 1.5ghz, 512mb - maudio firewire 410 - korg microKONTROL - Alesis m1 active mk2
I guess the guy you were talking to had no idea what he was talking about. Of course there are 7200 rpm firewire 400 drives out there. PowerBook can of course make use of a speedy harddisk. Firewire 400 is also more than sufficient for audio application, while fw 800 makes more fun with video apps etc. (with fw 800, you actually don't notice you had an external drive).
According to you best buy question, there are at least two ways 2 go. Either you obtain an internal ATA harddisk and screw it into a firewire case - this is the DIY way, wchich has the advantage of exactly knowing what you get. Or you go out and get a ready-made solution. In tha latter case, though, be aware of bargains. Get something which has a name, like LaCie d2 (very fine made aluminium cases without fans, since the aluminium beams the heat away - they get quite warm after several hours of use).
Caveat: Don't let fool yourself by the "LaCie Porsche Design" series - they have absolutely nothing 2 do with the neat German automobile manufacture. Instead, they are overpriced cheapo plastic and proven to make trouble (plastic doesn't cool the disks like alu does).
I prefer the ready-made solution, but have also a DIY-disk on my desktop. Both work perfectly (two firewire 400, two firewire 800 disks, 3 of them are LaCie d2).
with compliments, aljen
According to you best buy question, there are at least two ways 2 go. Either you obtain an internal ATA harddisk and screw it into a firewire case - this is the DIY way, wchich has the advantage of exactly knowing what you get. Or you go out and get a ready-made solution. In tha latter case, though, be aware of bargains. Get something which has a name, like LaCie d2 (very fine made aluminium cases without fans, since the aluminium beams the heat away - they get quite warm after several hours of use).
Caveat: Don't let fool yourself by the "LaCie Porsche Design" series - they have absolutely nothing 2 do with the neat German automobile manufacture. Instead, they are overpriced cheapo plastic and proven to make trouble (plastic doesn't cool the disks like alu does).
I prefer the ready-made solution, but have also a DIY-disk on my desktop. Both work perfectly (two firewire 400, two firewire 800 disks, 3 of them are LaCie d2).
with compliments, aljen
Last edited by aljen on Tue May 10, 2005 7:49 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Mr Wednesday
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cheers aljen. I have had so much bad luck with my new powerbook - it's nice to hear sum good news. In your opinion though do you think i need to run live off a faster hard drive or not?? If so it wouldn't need to be a huge 120gb one coz my samples wouldn't go no way near 10gig.
We are starting recording soon so i was thinking of getting one for backup. So LaCie you think is a good product???
Also if your keen to hear my problems with my new apple - here is the short version. Bought pbook - installed tiger - Bought live - wouldn't read the install disk - took pbook back to apple - they said couldn't do anything because the pbook was reading every other disk fine - ended up burning the instal disk - read the disk - installed live - computer froze first time of using it - recorded sum drums with 410 - froze once while playing back - next day was listening back to some older files i had created on a borrowed ibook with live on it (panther) - froze - both times i couldn't do a force quit. I've noticed live have said that it is compatible with tiger - anyways i've done a complete erase of my hard disk and installed panther. I am running live in demo mode for a few days and then i'll do the unlock - slowly install the drivers for my korg and firewire and see how we go - if live crashes with panther - maybe i got a lemon (the pbook that is)
Any thoughts?
We are starting recording soon so i was thinking of getting one for backup. So LaCie you think is a good product???
Also if your keen to hear my problems with my new apple - here is the short version. Bought pbook - installed tiger - Bought live - wouldn't read the install disk - took pbook back to apple - they said couldn't do anything because the pbook was reading every other disk fine - ended up burning the instal disk - read the disk - installed live - computer froze first time of using it - recorded sum drums with 410 - froze once while playing back - next day was listening back to some older files i had created on a borrowed ibook with live on it (panther) - froze - both times i couldn't do a force quit. I've noticed live have said that it is compatible with tiger - anyways i've done a complete erase of my hard disk and installed panther. I am running live in demo mode for a few days and then i'll do the unlock - slowly install the drivers for my korg and firewire and see how we go - if live crashes with panther - maybe i got a lemon (the pbook that is)
Any thoughts?
12inch PBook 1.5ghz, 512mb - maudio firewire 410 - korg microKONTROL - Alesis m1 active mk2