Very silent external FireWire drive

[aka21stCentury]

Sorry 'bout that. This B&H catalogue just arrived and I was reading in the dark. That box above, Dulce Systems Pro Duo, is eSATA only. Comes with 2x 1 meter eSATA cables (kind've short). You can purchase snap on ferrite beads, telecomms require beads on either end, USB, Firewire, all data carrying wire. www.granite.com www.kimber.com for cables with dual ferrites.

B&H also sells an all aluminum fanless box called dvBOX (PRDVBD) $95 USD -- enclosure only. I would go with the Hitachi everyone recommends. Dismount and power down if unit does not sleep. Also my new OWC unit is plastic and sucks, however it's an Oxford set with firewire 800 & USB-2 which I guess could be useful for back ups just as the unit you posted, but the cool thing is an ide to SATA board for PATA or SATA drives, makes it usefull for old dawgs like me with a ****load of drives.

But if you plan to use any PTs le firewire 400 audio interface the hub reverts to 400 just as SCSI did and you will not benefit from the Firewire 800 ports onboard bandwidth wise.

Wish their was some word from AVID about eSATA and PTs-9. Unless they are looking at eSATA as SATA. Express 34/54 Cards with eSATA I think about 5 times the bandwidth of Firewire USB-2.

[flommer]

Originally Posted by aka21stCentury

9 does not list eSATA as an option but this must be a clerical error.

In my opinion, people have always made too big a deal about this.

eSATA, in terms of performance and bus type etc, is simply SATA with a different connector designed to be more sturdy for repetitive insertions/removals... Or is that not true?

[JazzyJ]

http://oyendigital.com/firewire-800-usb-hard-drive.html


If you really want silent then you could go for:

http://oyendigital.com/hard-drives/s...SSD-120-M.html

MiniPro 120GB External FireWire 800/400, USB Portable Solid State Drive SSD

Advantages over standard hard drives
Faster seek time - great for HD video editing
Rock-solid durability - No moving parts, able to withstand high impact (1500Gs operating shock)
Lower power, cooler operation
Ultra silent operation

[wasserwerk]

Originally Posted by JazzyJ

http://oyendigital.com/firewire-800-usb-hard-drive.html

I found probably very similar drives in local shop:
http://www.dsp-memory.de/v1/catalog/...th=9012_10105&

Currently I follow new plan:
this enclosure:
http://www.dsp-memory.de/v1/catalog/...ucts_id=10830&

and this hard drive:
http://www.hitachigst.com/internal-d...velstar-z5k320

Probably the quietest mechanical HDD on the planet.

If you really want silent then you could go for:

http://oyendigital.com/hard-drives/s...SSD-120-M.html

MiniPro 120GB External FireWire 800/400, USB Portable Solid State Drive SSD

Advantages over standard hard drives
Faster seek time - great for HD video editing
Rock-solid durability - No moving parts, able to withstand high impact (1500Gs operating shock)
Lower power, cooler operation
Ultra silent operation

Too expensive for only 60 or 120 GB! But the problem here is FireWire which slow down this very fast drive. SSD make sense via (e)SATA - not FW400, FW800 or USB2, but my MacBook Pro had only FW800 and USB 2.0.