largest firewire drive?

[gregfrey]

What's the largest 7200 rpm Firewire drive available? Is there a 300 gigabyte? 400 gigabyte?

Thanks

Greg Frey

[auxsend1]

I think the current largest single 7200 rpm drive is 250.

[Touchwood Studios]

Lacie Big Disk External Firewire 500 GB

[auxsend1]

That one is two 250 GB drives in one box. Not sure if there are issues w/ PT because I think those are RAID 0, which PT does not officially support.

[JC925602]

The RAID system of the LaCie drive is hardware. Digidesign does not support software RAID solutions. I've seen two of those LaCie drives in a studio.

JC

[gregfrey]

After formatting, how much disk space is available on a 250 gig drive?

Thanks

Greg Frey

[auxsend1]

The RAID system of the LaCie drive is hardware. Digidesign does not support software RAID solutions. I've seen two of those LaCie drives in a studio.

Ah ha! Thanks for the info. Didn't think about soft vs. hard RAID.

Hard drive manufacturers use 1000*1000*1000= 1 GB where computers see it as 1024*1024*1024 = 1 GB, that's where the discrepancy lies. So, any time you format a drive, it will always read approximately 93% of the manufacturer's reported capacity.

So, a formatted 250 GB drive will report about 232 GB in the OS.

As drives continue to get bigger, this discrepacy will get larger proportionately, and I think what will happen is the drive manufacturers will eventually switch over to 1024^3 labeling of their drives. The first one to do it could even make it an advertising scheme and call it "True size" or some stupid spin like that.

[JC925602]

You can add four 250 GB Hard drive and a Sonnet Tempo Raid card inside a G4 MDD and have one huge 900+ GB volume. But as in any RAID solution without error correction, one drive goes, all data is lost.

JC

[bad jitter]

I've seen two of those LaCie drives in a studio.

Yeah, "drives" is the correct term - not "drive" (in this case).

[JC925602]

bad jitter, since English is not my first language, can you explain a little bit more about drive and drives. It seems that I don't understand what you mean.

I (most of the time) use the built-in spell checker of OS X in Safari (command-shift- but it just check if the words exist, so sometime I may write weird things, à la BabelFish.

JC