hi;
now can you hook a dvd burner up to time capsole? It has usb ports and
such on it...
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On Sep 8, 2008, at 6:57 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
You'll need to go with an external Firewire or USB DVD burner.
Compatibility for the drive itself gets a bit tricky as Apple is
notorious for only supporting their own DVD drives. A number of Mac-
specific resellers have done the leg work to package up compatible
drives and/or drivers. Other World Computing is one. You can find
their external DVD drives here:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/optical-drives/
Note that a dual-layer DVD holds about 9GB. USB2 typically gives
about 15MB per second throughput so at best you can do about an 8x
burner which requires about 11MB per second sustained throughput.
You might have to drop to 4x to be safe. Firewire 400 should have no
issues as it easily sustains 35MB per second throughput which means
you should be able to go 20x on your DVD burns.
After all that, if all you need is more storage, just get an
external firewire drive or network attached storage (NAS). If you
hook up a NAS via GigaBit Ethernet you can actually move stuff
faster than Firewire 800. Probably will hit the limits on what your
laptop drive can handle. Using wireless you'll be limited to what
the real throughput of your wireless network is. 802.11g has a
theoretical throughput of 54Mbs but you'll usually get about 20 or
less depending on how far away from the transmitter you are, how
many walls/floors you're going through etc. That means about 2MB per
second more or less. Enough to do some nice streaming media and web
surfing but pretty pokey for disk storage. Also, TimeMachine will
only work with local connected drives or Apple's Time Capsule for
wireless. I'm using a local firewire Western Digital 500GB myBook
for backups and extra storage which has been working well. Costco
has them for about $120.
CB
Mike's Western Account wrote:
hey;
ok so here's our situation. Me and sabrina both ordered new mac's,
however neither of us upgraded them to dvd burners. Now is there
any place out there, a place to order either wireless dvd burners
or networkable dvd burners?
Also what about wireless or networkable hard disks? I bet we will
fill up our 120gb hd's quite quickly
thanks
please help if you can
Mike
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