[MacDV] Final Cut 4 - Speed Control Issue, New Firewire Potential

Kunga Kunga at FutureMedia.org
Wed Jun 18 03:36:19 PDT 2003


Do you have a URL where you like what price and what is the model 
number of this ADS case? Thanks.

k

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On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 11:59  AM, Richard Brown wrote:

> Speaking of Firewire, the new ADS external Firewire/USB 2.0 drives, 
> with the new Oxford chipset are quieter, and, undocumented, feature 
> circuitry which (on our first generation G4) breaks the 137 GB 
> barrier, allowing full access to larger drives like the big Maxtors 
> and Western Digitals (200-250GB) through Firewire. And that is on 
> OLDER G4 CPU's. Pricing from the Net, you could put 1.16 Terabytes of 
> storage online for about $1900, and 2.32 TB for under $4000. However, 
> I believe Final Cut limits itself to 5 drives, meaning the 1.16 TB 
> configuration is currently the largest. However, Maxtor's MaxLine 
> series has a 320 GB drive coming soon, and these will up your Firewire 
> potential to 1.48 TB, given drive manufacturers lie about storage 
> space, defining a kilobyte as 1000 bytes rather than 1024, and so on. 
> Installing a 250GB in one of the ADS cases, it shows under Info as 
> being 232 GB (at 1024 bytes to a kilobyte), but also shows the total 
> byte count at 250 GB.
>
> Richard Brown



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