Re: Help! (Question for Computer Savvy Types)

Newegg has some nice enclosures with firewire, too. For the drive,
Caviar Black is probably the best way to go for speed.


On 12/28/10, 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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