Hardware :: Looking For Good FW800 500GB To 1TB External Drive

Dec 23, 2010

so I am in search of a new 500GB-1TB External Drive for Time Machine, and it has to have FW800 as well as USB 2.

I was thinking of getting an external chassis and buying my own hard drive, has anyone purchased a good external chassis with both ports, or a all in one drive that is worth the money?

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I just bought a 640gig Samsung 2.5 inch / 5400rpm drive and threw it in a FW800 case from Other world computing. Running some test using the QuickBench 4 and AJA system test shows me that this little bugger is almost as quick as my internal drive on my MacBook Pro (Model number: WDC WD6400BEVT-00A0RT0). How can this be???? I did a varity of test with different file sizes and the Samsung get 70 MB/s vs about 84 MB/s for the internal drive.

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As I will be using FCS (besides CS package and other smaller programms) I would like to set up a dedicated Scratch drive for it.

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2: install scratch space on the internal HDD (scratch only), and all other files (pics/music/video) on an external FW800 HDD.

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