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LaCie Porsche Mobile Hard Drive USB 2.0/FireWire review
Reviews Installing the LaCie Mobile Hard Drive is as simple as plugging it in to the USB 1.1 or 2.0 or FireWire bus; no AC adapter is required if your bus provides power, as most do. The Mobile Hard Drive's FireWire performance was quicker on our test...
[January 4, 2005, 9:15]
LaCie Desktop FireWire Hard Drive review
Reviews The 160GB Desktop FireWire Hard Drive uses LaCie’s standard external disk housing, seen on many of its drives (including removable media drives). This is because there’s an overhead involved in translating from the hard drive’s native protocol, in...
[May 22, 2002, 11:27]
Panther problem eats some hard drives
News Apple has identified an issue with external FireWire hard drives using the Oxford 922 bridge chipset with firmware version 1.02 that can result in the loss of data stored on the disk drive," the company said in a statement provided to CNET News.com.
[October 31, 2003, 7:15]
Can Apple keep control of the iPod?
News Key to the new music player is the high-speed technology that transfers the music, in data form, into the iPod's hard disk drive: it uses Firewire, IEEE 1394 serial communications protocol. Firewire, however, is only rarely found on a Windows-based...
[October 24, 2001, 11:48]
Sony VAIO PCG-VX71P review
Reviews The hard disk is this 2kg system’s only internal spinning media drive, weight considerations banishing the bundled DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo unit to external FireWire-connected status. Like many recent VAIOs, the VX71P features a number of trademark Sony...
[July 2, 2002, 18:20]
LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive 80GB review
Reviews There are two versions of the Rugged All-Terrain drive: USB 2.0-only and triple interface, which includes USB 2.0, FireWire 400 and FireWire 800. We tested the 80GB triple-interface drive using the FireWire connection and the results matched the...
[August 15, 2006, 9:10]
Data Robotics DroboPro review
Reviews The DroboPro has USB and FireWire ports for direct PC/Mac attachment, plus a Gigabit Ethernet interface for iSCSI SAN sharing. A pull-off front cover gives access to the drives, while the interfaces are all at the back, with FireWire 800 and USB...
[September 17, 2009, 11:26]
Poweroid.com 8202 review
Reviews At the top of the case there's a small spring-open door that conceals a FireWire port, two USB 2.0 ports plus microphone and headphone jacks. That makes a grand total of 14 USB and four FireWire ports -- enough to connect a veritable forest of...
[October 23, 2003, 13:00]
Comdex: USB 2.0 looking good in Vegas
News The first Comdex Fall of the new millennium provided a showcase for USB developers, and a chance to assess USB 2.0 against another apparently competing high-bandwidth I/O bus technologies such as IEEE 1394 or FireWire.
[November 14, 2000, 16:04]
Poweroid 1200 review
Reviews The P4C800 Deluxe provides integrated Gigabit Ethernet, a Promise Serial-ATA RAID controller, along with FireWire (IEEE 1394) and USB 2.0 support. There's a good mix of up-to-date and legacy I/O ports: parallel, serial, PS/2 (2), USB (4 rear, 2...
[March 26, 2004, 11:50]
Alienware MJ-12 8550i review
Reviews Most noticeably, the case has a lockable front panel with a small door to access the front-mounted FireWire and USB ports. Most connectivity bases are covered: the MJ-12 8550i provides four high-speed USB ports and three analogue jacks to go with...
[June 27, 2007, 10:31]
Intech Hard Disk SpeedTools
Downloads Hard Disk SpeedTools from Intech Software is the easiest to use, highest-performing SCSI, ATA & FireWire disk management utility available for the Macintosh. Plus, with its built-in "Precision Driver" technology, Hard Disk SpeedTools will...
[November 12, 2003, 7:00]
PsyncX
Downloads You can mirror your selected folder to a FireWire drive, a disk image, or a network drive (this feature doesn't seem to be working right now). Psync allows you to backup either part or all of your hard drive.
[July 7, 2007, 8:00]
VST FireWire Updater
Downloads The FireWire VST Disk Support Version extension replaces any prior versions of FireWire VST HD/Zip Driver and the VST FireWire HD Driver Version 1.0. Based on customer feedback, we have made improvements to our software for VST FireWire Hard Drives...
[April 30, 2001, 8:00]
Linux Desktop Hacks: Use an iPod With Linux
White Papers The iPod is basically just a FireWire hard disk, with its own operating software stored in one partition. This paper shows how to use an iPod with Linux. It's aimed at Linux purists - that is, people who don't want to have to use a Mac or Windows...
[October 24, 2007, 1:00]
SMARTReporter
Downloads Because SMARTReporter relies on the S.M.A.R.T.implementation of Mac OS X, it only supports ATA, SATA or eSATA hard disk drives, if you want S.M.A.R.T.support for your FireWire hard disk drive, send feedback to Apple.
[October 16, 2009, 20:51]
FWB Hard Disk ToolKit
Downloads FWB's Hard Disk ToolKit (HDT) features a Power Mac native storage device driver that optimizes the performance of SCSI,IDE,and FireWire devices including most removables and virtually everydisk drive available.
[January 8, 2002, 7:00]
How to avoid obsolete storage hell
Talkback Some Laptops now come without serial ports, will USB and firewire be superceeded? What happens when the new computer does not have a connector that will accept the external disk? Stroring data on external hard drives works - for now.
[May 25, 2005, 8:52]
BTV X
Downloads It works with any Macintosh compatible video input source such as video input cards, TV cards, built-in video, USB, DV, and FireWire video sources. Works with any Macintosh compatible video input source - View video in a window or full-screen...
[April 29, 2002, 8:00]
iMac Firmware Update
Downloads This update includes improvements to starting up Mac OS X from the local hard disk, Firewire target disk mode, starting up from the local hard disk, network start-up, and system stability. This update also adds support for additional security...
[September 26, 2001, 1:09]
