Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 16:57:07 05/28/02
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On May 28, 2002 at 18:49:04, Roy Eassa wrote: >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.) I'm sorry, but this doesn't mean anything to me. What are the consequences of this? Russell
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