[mattspink]

I recently purchased a LaCie d2 FireWire drive to give me the space to carry out video editing. The spec of the drive makes it quicker than my iMacs internal drive (I have a 3.5 year old 400MhZ iMac).

However, when/playing from/editing video to thecdrive it is really jerky. I tried a friends drive and it does the same but works ok on his G4.

He said he had heard about a similar case and it was due to the system bus being too slow on the old iMacs.

Is this true, and if so is there a way round it?

Cheers,

Matt

[mattspink]

I really need to find a solution

[Sam Venning]

I thought I had a problem with the IceCube800 cases I purchased recently. The source of problem turned out to be a faulty Hitachi hard drive which was replaced on warranty.

I decided to get two Hitachi 180GB 8MB Deskstar GXP drives for work and one for my own personal use. I got the Hitachi 180GB Deskstar GXP because it was the one recommended by www.barefeats.com (excellent site!). The benchmark tests look very good for this drive (see link below). The benchmak tests also look good when put in a nice new IceCube800 Firewire 800 enclosure (see link below).

I used the drives on several PowerMac G4 computers using both the Firewire400 and Firewire800 connections. Two of the drives experienced corrupt directories - serious corruptions that Diskwarrior 3 couldn't repair. I retrieved some of the data but when I try to retrieve one folder the drive light blinks on and off (slowly) and my Mac (Mac OS 10.2.6) becomes unresponsive.

I reformatted the hard disk drives (zero all data) in a fresh attempt to start with a "clean" drive... but the problems returned. One of the drives was replaced on warranty... I will use the drives with caution for the first month.

http://www.barefeats.com/#quick - Rob recommends Hitachi drive.
http://www.barefeats.com/fire37.html - Rob's review of the Firewire 800 enclosures.
http://www.barefeats.com/hard26.html - Rob's review of the Hitachi drive.
http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product...products_id/385 - IceCube800 enclosure details.

[Mike Pither]

I also have a lacie d2 firewire drive (80GB) which I bought to go with my old iMac 400 dvse and I don't get any of the jerkiness that you speak about with video editing. My iMac has 648 mb of ram and 10.2.6 installed, I don't know if the extra ram is helping or not.