Re: Help! (Question for Computer Savvy Types)

First off, the Best Buy salesman is just trying to make a sale.   Never
trust them to know everything about everything.   Not saying I know anything
about this technology, but I'm really skeptical.

Second, assuming that she spent around $140 (the going rate of the 2tb
Seagate GoFlex drive at BestBuy) plus $20 for the adaptor, maybe she can
take it back, and then order something online.  Under $200 is a bit of a
stretch, but there are some options.

$180 - LaCie 2TB -
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003184GL2?ie=UTF8&tag=wpbg-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003184GL2

   John


On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:04 PM, pcg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Patience got me a 2 terabyte external hard drive for Christmas. The
> purpose is to have a dedicated drive from which to edit and render my
> film.
>
> Before opening the box, I noticed that this hard drive only has a USB
> 2.0 port, which gave me pause. I couldn't imagine anything less than
> Firewire being serviceable for video editing and real-time effects
> rendering. After doing a little research online, this seems to be the
> case.
>
> So today she went to exchange the hard-drive for something with a
> Firewire port, but Best Buy apparently only has one, and it costs
> around $300 -- far more than she was planning to spend.
>
> The guy at Best Buy offered her an alternative, which is a Seagate USB
> 2.0 hard drive, along with an "adapter" that makes it Firewire
> compatible. The adapter can be found here:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2333mpt
>
> My question is whether this is actually going to give me Firewire
> speeds, or if it's simply an adapter that's going to throttle my
> connection. The guy at Best Buy assured her that it gives me full
> Firefly speeds, but I've been burned by the minimum wage "experts" at
> Best Buy enough times to seek a second opinion.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts or recommendations?
>
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