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| clay |
| your pretty stupid looking at firewire devices. firewire is dead. get usb3 (which also works on usb2) or maybe thunderbolt with a usb converter being ready for next gen comps. |
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| Adam420 |
| Why couldn't you explain that to him without telling him he's stupid? |
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| PivotTechno |
| He spelled it "your" - kind of self-answering question. |
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| n3lly |
Both Adam and PT makes valid points clay.
PT even more so..
I haven't got any experience with those hard drives. I like using Firewire 800 as it frees up my other 2 usb3 ports on my laptop and i don't transfer large amounts of data on the FW port. |
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| DJ RANN |
If it's for studio use then firewire is fine.
For live gigs/use, don't go anywhere near it!
Why? Because Firewire interface can easily burn the FW bridge when hotswapped due to the peer to peer nature of the connection protocol.
IN those circumstances USB will be far better.
The best external storage brands are G-drive and Lacie. High bandwidth, rock solid performance and best reliability rates in the biz.
Glyph used to be great but got left behind. Don't bother with other brands if it's for crucial applications such as irreplaceable song projects etc. |
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| kadomony |
| Thanks guys. What about using a FW drive in a Thunderbolt port via adapter? I'd like to have as many USB slots free for other devices as possible. This is for gigs. |
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| clay |
| dont use firewire. im sorry i said it in a bad manner but the point stands. |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
| yes the fact that you are a retard stands. |
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| clay |
| buy firewire if you want, its not my gig going to hell |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| quote: | Originally posted by kadomony
Thanks guys. What about using a FW drive in a Thunderbolt port via adapter? I'd like to have as many USB slots free for other devices as possible. This is for gigs. |
just get a thunderbolt drive. |
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| Rodri Santos |
I'd not plug a hd in a cdj, mixer, whatever nor ever i'd use firewire port, is a dead format never was sucessful usb 3.0 is gonna kill it definitely.
I've seen many djs using an usb stick (both 2 and 3.0 compatible i believe) with an insane amount of space and rather cheap maybe up to 500gb that's enough to bring your full collection and well if you still manage to fill it be serious, you don't need that amount of tunes to be at handsight in any moment, you can have 1000 wavs which is enough with 320k mp3s or flacs... imagine.
I know it's grey/blue and a bit bigger than the usual usb stick i've seen John O callaghan and SvD using it. |
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