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From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 24 Jan 2010 14:56 Mike Rosenberg wrote: > Erik Richard Sørensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: >> If you want something near same >> speed as the internal, you should bay the extra money for an external >> Firewire enclosure instead and then put in a 7200rpm disk. > > And just how do you know he has a Firewire port to connect to the > external drive? Why don't you read the thread before answering? - From one of his very first answers back: ..."It's for my MacBook Pro. How would an external 7200 USB boot drive compare with an internal 5400?"... Until now I've _never_ seen a MBP without Firewire! Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: Larry Gusaas on 24 Jan 2010 15:04 On 2010/01/24 11:36 AM Erik Richard Sørensen wrote: > You can say that the 'Seagate situation' is the opposite of the > 'IBM/Hitachi situation', where the 2.5" IBM/Hitachi TravelStar always > have b een among the best, the 3,5" disks are among the worst. So as > already written buy a WD Scorpio or TravelStar Unfortunately, I got one of the duds when I bought a Hitachi TravelStar 320GB 7200rpm HD. It died after five months. What really irritated me was waiting over a month for a replacement drive to arrive. Because of the long replacement time, I probably won't get another Hitachi drive. How long are Seagate's replacement times? -- Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com "An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." - Edgard Varese
From: M-M on 24 Jan 2010 15:11 In article <4b5ca5d0$0$8560$ba624c82(a)nntp06.dk.telia.net>, Erik Richard S�rensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > Until now I've _never_ seen a MBP without Firewire! I can't see much difference in trnsfer speed between a FW400 and a good USB drive like my Lacie Little Disk. This MBP only comes with a FW800 and I really dislike the connector plug and jack. It falls out too easily. -- m-m http://www.mhmyers.com
From: Mike Rosenberg on 24 Jan 2010 15:25 Erik Richard S�rensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > Mike Rosenberg wrote: > > Erik Richard S�rensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > >> If you want something near same > >> speed as the internal, you should bay the extra money for an external > >> Firewire enclosure instead and then put in a 7200rpm disk. > > > > And just how do you know he has a Firewire port to connect to the > > external drive? > > Why don't you read the thread before answering? - From one of his very > first answers back: > > ..."It's for my MacBook Pro. How would an external 7200 USB boot drive > compare with an internal 5400?"... I'm sorry, I missed seeing that. -- My latest dance performance <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_9pudbFisE> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi>
From: nospam on 24 Jan 2010 15:35
In article <nospam.m-m-0D4786.15111524012010(a)cpe-76-190-186-198.neo.res.rr.com>, M-M <nospam.m-m(a)ny.more> wrote: > I can't see much difference in trnsfer speed between a FW400 and a good > USB drive like my Lacie Little Disk. This MBP only comes with a FW800 > and I really dislike the connector plug and jack. It falls out too > easily. get a better cable. |