Yeah - what you say is true. I hadn't thought it through. Firewire 3200 will end up being more reliable than the supposedly faster USB 3.0, I guess. And better for long data intensive transfers like capturing video. Although if you're just capturing AVCHD files from a camera HDD to your Mac, which is what a lot of people will be doing, USB will work just as well, I guess. Good tip on the white macbook.
On 17-Oct-08, at 2:04 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: The problem with USB - any variety - for video isn't speed, it's the data flow protocol, which apparently doesn't lend itself to sustained data movement. (Maybe 3.0 changes this, I don't know, but I'm skeptical after seeing the performance of 2.0). I think both USB and firewire suck, but they're standards for now. Every external drive solution since SCSI has promised reliability and performance, and none have delivered it (eSATA does deliver performance, at least). The white macbook is still there. It's $999. It has firewire 400. If you don't work with After Effects or Motion or used many GPU-dependent effects it remains an absolute steal. _______________________________________________________ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
