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90_percent_sure

Mac Stuff

Jan 30, 2007 14:08

Don't laugh. I used to do production work on my old Bondi Rev A iMac. 3gb HD. Which was flippin' HUGE compared to the 300mb drive I'd used previously, on an ever-changing set up of IIci's and other assorted pizza boxes. A Quantum? Quanta? whateve ( Read more... )

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90_percent_sure January 30 2007, 20:27:44 UTC

Looky!

why don't I own that already?

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90_percent_sure January 30 2007, 21:21:46 UTC

Hey you. Yes you. How do you back up your laptop?

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drewan January 30 2007, 20:58:05 UTC

Umm... back up the projects to DVD-ROM and erase them from the hard drive?

I'm nearing completion of backing up all my video project files. Sometimes for me this means that I have to go back in a and edit the videos down to smaller 4gb files.

drewan January 30 2007, 20:58:50 UTC

Oh.. and don't rely on hard drives... they fail way to often.

90_percent_sure January 30 2007, 21:04:02 UTC

That's why I want a second one.

90_percent_sure January 30 2007, 21:03:04 UTC

I have 69gb of stuff that could go off. But time factor + amount spent on DVD's = faster and cheaper to buy a new drive.

Prepare to geek 90_percent_sure January 30 2007, 21:47:03 UTC

I talked myself into an external HD. I found drives for sale that are USB 2.0 and Firewire 400, Firewire 800.

When I go under system profiler on my G5, I have "high speed USB Bus" and Firewire 800.

FW speed is "800Mb/sec"
USB high speed Bus is "up to 480 mb/sec"

1) Will I notice a difference if I go with USB v. FW (usb is cheaper)
2) Should I care?
3) Does the existing HD use either of these interfaces/protocols/whatever they are to read/write?
4) Is High Speed USB Bus comparable to USB 2.0? Same thing? Different?

I need help. The Internets only serves to confuse right now.

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Re: Prepare to geek 90_percent_sure January 31 2007, 03:35:38 UTC

Right. Like a hundred zillion times faster? No. Fast enough so I would notice? No. Then right.

Re: Prepare to geek davidschroth January 31 2007, 04:00:15 UTC

Roughly twice as fast, assuming that the drive can sustain what are obviously peak transfer rates. Which I'm pretty sure they can't.

I might ask lsanderson for his opinion, even though he doesn't do Macs. He does appear to have a serious interest in, and knowledge of, mass storage systems.