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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 394907" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Right now all my knowledge related to external drives comes from spending about 100 hours reading everything I could find over the past couple of months. But from what I have learned, think they are both correct in that FW400 will be just fine for streaming music. Pretty much all the good reviewers recommend FW800 if you intend to stream video (especialy HD) or you're transferring a lot of large files.</p><p></p><p>If you check OWC - Firewire externals -they have some tables showing transfer speeds on a few of them (have to hunt around a little, didn't have time before work) - they are typical of all the ones I found.</p><p>Probably won't have it up by this weekend, but have one of the OWC quad inteface cases and a WD, 3 platter, 500GB drive hopefully arriving today. Am planning on doing some testing across USB, FW400/800 and posting the results. </p><p></p><p>On the iMac - you would not be able to upgrade to FW800. This is something that is hardwired into the board and they have no expresscard slot (that would be nice for Apple to add to the iMac's). She would have to go all the way up to the 24" to get FW800 built in. However, if you look at the Windows PC manufacturers, you will have a hard time finding anything under $3k that has FW800. So this is a common dilemma, not just Apple.</p><p></p><p>Check with baggss, he does all the video stuff and has a lot of external space set up already. From the prices he mentioned, think he must be using USB or FW400.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 394907, member: 24160"] Right now all my knowledge related to external drives comes from spending about 100 hours reading everything I could find over the past couple of months. But from what I have learned, think they are both correct in that FW400 will be just fine for streaming music. Pretty much all the good reviewers recommend FW800 if you intend to stream video (especialy HD) or you're transferring a lot of large files. If you check OWC - Firewire externals -they have some tables showing transfer speeds on a few of them (have to hunt around a little, didn't have time before work) - they are typical of all the ones I found. Probably won't have it up by this weekend, but have one of the OWC quad inteface cases and a WD, 3 platter, 500GB drive hopefully arriving today. Am planning on doing some testing across USB, FW400/800 and posting the results. On the iMac - you would not be able to upgrade to FW800. This is something that is hardwired into the board and they have no expresscard slot (that would be nice for Apple to add to the iMac's). She would have to go all the way up to the 24" to get FW800 built in. However, if you look at the Windows PC manufacturers, you will have a hard time finding anything under $3k that has FW800. So this is a common dilemma, not just Apple. Check with baggss, he does all the video stuff and has a lot of external space set up already. From the prices he mentioned, think he must be using USB or FW400. [/QUOTE]
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