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I was considering getting a ClubMac firewire drive after hearing some good things about them (they are name brand drives, just in ClubMac External cases that connect via firewire)
http://clubmac.com/cgi-bin/sgin0102....EAR&FNM=07


What I want to know is this, first of all, can you boot up off of these drives, I want to keep a copy of OS X on that drive, and keep my current drive (internal ATA) with OS 9.1 and some other stuff.

Seconds, what is speed like, are they slower than the ATA/100 drives?



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[Paul S]

I'm not sure about the booting thing, but I think the latest FW drivers from Apple support it. Not sure if that changes with OS X.

FireWire drives are currently slower than ATA100, but not for long. FW drives are just ATA drives in an enclosure. The bridge chip that goes from ATA to FW is only standard EIDE. Drives are only sustaining 12 or 14MB/s. There is a company that announced an ATA100 to FW bridge chip at the last MacWorld. Drives aren't shipping with that yet, but should be soon. The fastest ATA100 drives can sustain somewhere in the mid-30MB/s, so that should continue under FireWire's max of 50MB/s.

[G4ME]

That still won't tap out the 400mbs firewire. What I want is a 10,000 RPM firewire with one of those chips then I could get outstanding speeds

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