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Old 19-06-2007, 02:06 PM
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Firewire 800 optical drives.
Does anybody know if Firewire 800 DVD burners or single or multi bay 5.25" Firewire 800 enclosures are available? Is the ATA bus of a optical drive fast enough to take advantage of Firewire 800 anyway?

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Old 19-06-2007, 02:11 PM
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The latter is the reason for no FW800 optical drives.
Right now a DVD burner or reader won't spit out any more than the FW400 limit, so there's no need for a FW800 one.
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Old 19-06-2007, 07:25 PM
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The latter is the reason for no FW800 optical drives.
Right now a DVD burner or reader won't spit out any more than the FW400 limit, so there's no need for a FW800 one.
Thanks for that. I suppose a SATA optical drive would be too slow as well and doubt if an enclosure would available for it anyway.
Looks like I'll get a Macpower 5.25" enclosure.
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