Digital BW, The Print

Just a note on firewire drives for Windows users.
I thought they were the best things since sliced bread.  I have 1550 Gigs of
them on my machine.
I read and write a lot of data to them, a staggering amount some might say.

Here is the problem.  On windows, the data goes through windows drivers to
handle the firewire ports.  For some reason, that allows for a rare but
crippling corruption of the drive.  I have suffered 4 total corruptions of
the firewire drives, and came to this conclusion after discussion with a
level-2 engineer from a “famous” drive manufacturer.  I have had no such
corruptions with internal drives, and I write even more data to them, 250
Gig per day is not unusual.

This is just my experience, I’m not a computer hardware engineer so take the
information as you see fit.

Best regards,
John Moody

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Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 7:21 PM
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Subject: [Digital BW] Re: 2400 vs 2200 using IJC or QTR

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Frost"
<bob@f...> wrote:
> Roy,
<snip>
> Bob Frost.


And that's why it's nice to have an old machine around, or at least
an extra hard drive to trade in or out as needed. Wish Windows would
boot from a firewire drive like OSX, that would make life so much
easier!!! I've tried to do that with PC machines that say they will
boot from USB hard drives, but never had any luck with it actually
working.





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