Do Native Firewire Hard Drives Exist? 11
toph42 asks: "I am impressed by the technology of the IEEE 1394 interface, but I am disappointed at the performance of the hard drives I have seen. I need to find a hard drive that leaves out the IDE bottleneck and attaches to Firewire natively, without an IDE bridge. Does such a thing exist?"
Why not... (Score:1)
Firewire is really neat stuff (tough to get for PCs, though), but I really haven't seen a lot for it except for Sony digital cameras.
IDE is not the bottleneck (Score:3)
The current IDE-Firewire bridges are. They are all buggy, and can only run in PIO Mode 4, which limits the drives to around 16 megs a second. I imagine that next generation bridges should fix that.
While the latest greatest drives are currently SCSI, from an economic standpoint an IDE drive with an IDE-Firewire bridge is about as good as you will currently do in terms of features/cost for external an drive.
As for native firewire drives, there none currently. I believe quantum has stated they will be making some available in the future, and since MacWorld seems like a logical place for firewire announcements, this statemnet might be wrong in a few hours.
Hope that is helpful.
Louis
Haiku? (Score:1)
Expandable and Easy
USB Cowers
Re:IDE is not the bottleneck (Score:2)
Re:Haiku? (Score:1)
Not too tough (Score:1)
Does the Western Digital drive count? (Score:2)
Re:Why not... (Score:1)
ADSTech conversion (Score:1)
1394 drive vendor... (Score:2)
Re:ADSTech conversion (Score:1)
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