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Firewire Hard Drives for video.
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
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On the MacNN page there is a link for an advitsor called "transintl.com". Listed on their web site is a 30gb protable (bus powered) hard drive listed for $449. This price seems way too good to be true for a bus powered drive, VST seems to have the market but at $711 best price.
Does anyone have any information on this company and specifically these drives? I'm looking for something that will support video editing on a PowerBook G4 running Final Cut Pro. Any help someone could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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I don't know much about this but I've found Firewire drives in general to be more of a convenience than speedy.
For heavy Video work you probably want to keep away from Firewire for now if you can.
It'll be great one day.......one day......
Then again, you're on a portable so I guess you've not got an alternative.
[This message has been edited by andymcdeee (edited 05-20-2001).]
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FW drives are now much faster. The new Oxford 911 chipset allows them to have transfer rates up to 35MB/s sustained. That's as fast as the faster internal IDE hard drives that come in the latest G4s, etc. Not too many are shipping yet, but they are starting to show up. Prices are competitive with the original speed drives.
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tdehnke
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Paul, any ideas on who is using the new chipset?
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But does anyone know of a good bus powered drive that can be used for video? And has anyone heard of "Transintl.com"
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Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Cleveland, OH, USA
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Other World Computing has them too. I think LaCie's is now shipping also. Bus powered tend to be laptop drives in a FW case. Those drives are very slow (around 4200rpm). I generally don't recommend them for video.
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