Oxford 900 firewire chipsets

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Langdon Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Jun 2001 Status: Offline	Nov 10, 2004, 05:42 PM
	So I have an older firewire case that uses a Oxford 900 chipset. I know the 911 chips are better, and I have one of those being used to house a DVDr, but are there any defects or reliablility issues that would prevent me from sticking a 60 gig drive in there and use it as a backup drive? Does anyone know what the sustained transfer rates of an Oxford 900 chip is and what the average tranfer rate of a 7200RPM HDD are? (Last edited by Langdon; Nov 10, 2004 at 05:50 PM. )