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    W
    W
    I am wondering if someone at VSL could advise -
    do you recommend or discourage the use of an external hard drive connected by firewire to a Gigastudio setup?
  • cmC
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    cmC
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    @William said:

    I am wondering if someone at VSL could advise -
    do you recommend or discourage the use of an external hard drive connected by firewire to a Gigastudio setup?

    firewire-drives operate fine - not only with GS
    considering that firewire(IEEE1394) has a bandwidth of 400 Mbit/sec which means a datarate of about 47 Mbytes/sec no single harddrive will be able to supply that amount of data (very fast ATA-drives provide about 20 MBytes/sec _real_ datarate)
    we have a series of setups with one or more firewire-disks connected and all of them perform fine
    christian
    and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.
  • W
    W
    Thanks very much for the information.
    William