I'm not sure what kind of devices you're dealing with, but with real world speed tests, no consumer level devices come close to the theoretical or even real world limits for gigabit ethernet or firewire 800. Also, costco's prices on the mybook are fairly criminal. in fact, costco's prices on electronics other than TVs is fairly outrageous. I'm not sure why there's such a price discrepancy between costco and my favorite retailers (i.e. newegg) half the time.
cheers, jane On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Chris Blouch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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
