Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 15:49:04 05/28/02
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On May 28, 2002 at 17:23:12, Russell Reagan wrote: >What kind of a hard drive would you need for these kinds of things? SCSI? >Firewire? Also, what size hard disks would it need to be? 100GB? 160GB? There >are 180 GB SCSI drives for $999, and 160 GB firewire drives for $318. > >Russell All the FireWire drives I've seen (I actually own 2 myself) are just ATA drives in a box with some circuitry that converts the wire protocol to FireWire. I assume that means they suffer the same drawbacks as ATA drives, if not worse. (But for my Mac, both internal ATA drives and external FireWire drives are a breath of fresh air after 14 years of wrangling with internal and external SCSI drives.)
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