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----- Original Message ----- From: "Rieni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [AP] Firewire 800 > > At 12-01-2005 13:03, Taky Cheung wrote: > > >Rieni, > > > >I bought this thing > > > >http://www.cooldrives.com/dual-drive-firewire-enclosure-two-drive-enclosure -raid-firewire-aluminum-case-mini-1394b.html > > > >It's an firewire external enclosure that hosts 2 ATA HD with RAID 0 built > >in. You can remove the jumper and it will show up as 2 independent HDs. > >It supports both both 1394a and 1394b standard. I use a harddrive speed > >test program by Canopus. The speed is as fast as my internal SATA Raid 0. > > Ok I checked out that site and it looks great. For the price of $170 I > assume it comes without any hard disks though? > > >Right now I'm connecting it to a 1394a FW400 port. I'm thinking of getting > >a 1394b card. Not sure if it will boost the speed. I know 1394a speed is > >fast enough for video editing. But I also use this drive to back up all > >huge AVi files. So it won't hurt to have a even faster connection. > > Yup true, the faster the better! > > Rieni > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
