[Superchicken]

Hey yeah I know the idea of a firewire HD doesn't make all that much sense if you could just go and get a bigger HD. But anyway, what is the fastest HD you could get before the bottle neck would be the firewire verses the HD?

I know I heard the iPod's HD doesn't even keep up to firewire, but like what would be faster, I'm actually thinking it might be useful since my laptop's 4200 RPM HD is driving me up the wall.

[Axo1ot1]

Well if you have FW 800 you can put a 7200 rpm 8 MB buffer drive in an Oxford 922 enclosure and pretty closely replicate the performance of that drive if it was connected internally in a tower. If you are going FireWire 400 I'm not sure what the bottleneck is, just make sure you have Oxford 911 chipset, which cuts the bottleneck out of the firewire-to-ata bridge.