…it would have been nice if Freecom made them a little more accessible. This aside, we have no problems with the drive itself: it has a very solid feel, looks stylish and, provided you’ll take… Read more…
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I use FireWire not only for Target Mode but for high end bus powered FireWire drives like the LaCie Little Big Disk. USB2 is not only slower but it won’t support this drive in bus power mode. How arrogant of Apple to decide we no longer ….. Although there aren’t many on the market, I bought a Firewire 400 CompactFlash reader for my dSLR. The transfer rate is significantly faster than that of a USB reader. I also passed on many USB only external hard drives – the mere … Read more…
Though the USB 2.0 interface theoretically has a faster throughput (480 megabits per second versus 400 Mbps for FireWire), it was a little slower in my testing. Transferring our 1.2GB test folder to the Studio over FireWire 400 took 41 seconds, and USB 2.0 took 49 seconds. … FireWire is also the interface of choice for creating bootable discs (in case you want to install Mac OS X on an external drive for data recovery, testing, or troubleshooting). And since FireWire … Read more…
Apple MacBook mid-2010 – White Mischief? Toshiba’s New Canvio for Mac Portable Hard Drives LaCie XtremKey Adventurous USB Flash Drive Gmail HTML5 Features Now Support Safari Too Essential Freeware Applications For Mac Troubleshooting ….. and own an appropriate disk utility bootable CD/DVD to use as the source disk. DasBoot works with FireWire and USB external storage devices on your new Intel based Mac or firewire only devices on PowerPC based Mac computers. … Read more…
