Fwd: [CUBE] Size of FireWire disks?

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the max size internally is 128 GB. formatted. so if you put in a 160 GB 
disk, it'll format to 128 GB. the rest is inaccessible.
(if you put in a 128 GB disks (as they are sold in the store) they will 
format to about 111,8 GB. thats the difference between 1 GB = 1000 MB 
(used by the manufacturers) and 1 GB = 1024 MB (which is what your 
filesystem uses)).

the external size is only limited by the chipset thats used in the 
interface. the firewire chipsets (namely the "oxford" ones) can usually 
access capacities larger than whats as drives on the market today. 
(very good cases done by www.macpower.com.tw and virtually found 
everywhere).

now, with la cie, thats different. they use a couple of disks, chained 
together as a simple raid-system and offer that as "one drive" to your 
machine. the cube - and any other firewire capable mac - will happily 
access and utilise those. there, the translation between the cube and 
the harddrives is done by the raid-chipset, and it has very little to 
do with firewire (except from the fact that thats the connection they 
chose). so the size of the disks is of no importance (when adressing 
them).

go ahead. buy one of the la cies and tell us how you like 'em. (or at 
least, please, tell me.) wait a week before giving us the report, 
though. otherwise it'll all be "great, superduper, fast, the best, the 
greatest, blablabla" which is not really helpful.

have a nice day.

wolf


Am 02.02.2004 um 09:38 schrieb J.C. Webber III:

> I know that the max size for an internal disk is ~120GB (I currently
> have 80GB 7200RPM), but does that limit extend to externally attached
> FireWire drives?  Can a single external FireWire drive exceed 120GB?
>
> I'm thinking about getting one of those new 1TB LaCie drives.
>
> Will I have chop it up into 120GB logical drives?  Will the Cube
> recognize the whole thing that way?
>
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