FW 800/ FW 400/ USB 2.0 card? |
May, 29, 2003 12:26 AM |
gabb |
I have a FW/ USB combo card from 2 1/2 years ago, that doesn't seem to cut it anymore, i.e. crashes etc. What card do u guys recommend? How is the Sonnet Tango 2.0 or the Tampo Trio? Anything good out there or shld i wait for the FW 800/ FW 400/ USB combo card? |
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RE: FW 800/ FW 400/ USB 2.0 card? |
May, 29, 2003 9:35 PM |
powderhaus |
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you would see a minor increace in speed from FW2, maybe 50MB/s. but that isnot worth howmuch it will clog your system, and then trough USB 2 on it and it will only get worse, it is not worth the $120 for only FW800, then a good case costs $180, is that worth it for 10mb/s more, if your lucky? I have not heard anything bad about the trio, infact, unlike most ATA cards it does not have the 8GB limit to the first partition because it identifies itself as a SCSI device, that is cool, i think. |
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RE: FW 800/ FW 400/ USB 2.0 card? |
May, 29, 2003 5:15 PM |
gabb |
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Thanks a lot Marty, how is that Sonnet trio card (with ATA 133 connetion as well)? |
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RE: FW 800/ FW 400/ USB 2.0 card? |
May, 29, 2003 4:18 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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FW 800 is pointless on our older 32bit PCI bus systems. FW800 only achieves it's faster throughput in 64 bit PCI bus systems. This means Blue and White G3 and up. I have the older Macally combo card which is a USB1/FW400 combo card which works ok, but does have issues when using USB audio devices such as imic or the Onkyo USB audio thing. Using a USB2 card with the NEC chip (D720100AGM) resolved the USB issues with the Onkyo audio device.... If you could find a FW/USB2 combo card that used that chip for USB2 you would be sitting pretty. Marty |
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