What is 'better' for external hard drives: USB 2.0 or Firewire?
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I believe USB 2 is technically faster but only in Peak bursts. Firewire can maintain a sustained data rate over a longer period of time.\n\nI have had problems with certain firewire hard drives with video so make sure you check up on the specific drive you are purchasing. Make sure your drive is at least 7200 rpm. I built my drive with a ADS firewire USB2 enclosure and a Western Digital hard drive. it was simple and has been dependable, and if it fails I can get an inexpensive drive and replace it. Worked for me.\n\nTony
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Is it a new HD, or an old one from an other computer? how is it tied into your computer, USB, Fire wire, or Slave in the tower?? Is it FAT32, or NTSF format? Is a Windows OS installed on it, which one? Info need to help....
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and you have a double-male usb cable? anyway .. an external usb harddrive would be the best thing ... you can get a smaller one for under 50 bucks ...
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These are two different issues, and come together only because some hardware uses both. \n\n============\nUSB\n\nTo us any USB device, you must have USB hardware (a 'host' in your computer, and USB client hardware in whatever widget you want to connect to it). And cables, the right sort. And a software interface driver in your OS which understands USB and manage it. \nvarious OS have gotten the necessary software components at various times. Windows had nothing until a late version of Win95, and did not get routinely reliable USB software until rather later. XP is said by some to be the first Windows version which has adequate USB support. Partly because hardware vendors were unwiling to work with Linux developers, Linux took rather longer than it need have done. Apple was corprately committed to its own modern serial interface, "Firewire", and so its hardware didn't support USB for quite a while. Indeed, until it became clear that regardless of its virtues, Firewire would not be universally (or even widely) adopted, Apple was USB invisible. \n\n==========\nUSB device support\n\nEven if your OS and hardware together are ideally set up to support USB, you will hardly be able to use a USB backscratcher without the appropriate driver software. USB is only an interface designed to pass information back and forth between a host and a client, not to run backscratchers and toenail clippers. To do that, you need software which 'understands' the special issues involved in backacratching, toenail clipping, or wireless equipment operation. And further, the particular way the particular piece of hardware you have does its thing (different vendors implement different features and basic strategies, after all). \n\n==================\nyour case\n\nIf your USB adaptor (I presume you mean a third party after market unit, but the principles are the same) is properly integrated with your OS and with your other hardware, that takes care of the USB side of the problem. Does any other USB device work with your adaptor? If yes, your problem is not likely to be with it. \n\nThe USB interfaced wireless equipment you're trying to use most likley came with some software on a CD or floppy. Is that software properly installed and configured? If not, this is your first item to investigate. In many operating systems, you can run a utility program which looks at log files for error messages from a particular device (or interface); this may tell you something about what's gone wrong. In others, there are inbuilt reporting mechanisms. Under Widnows, for instance, you can examine the properties of the device driver(s) involved via the Device Manager in the Control Panel in recent versions of Windows. This may provide some hints as well. \n\nIt may be that you will have to remove (or uninstall) this driver software and then reinstall it. This is particulary the case with Windows when things get crossways. \n\nOnce the driver is actually working properly (and configured properly, which is not the same thing), then you will have only, in your case, the usual wireless issues remaining. The 802.11a standard is incompatible with 802.11b or g (or eventually n). Do your radios match in this respect? If so, are they in range of each other? The 300 foot (100 meter) range is largely a myth -- copywriters' .fervid imaginatinos rarely have any connection with actual engineering rality -- and is considerably affected by any sort of obstacle, from fog to tree leaves to buildings and walls and antenna placement and orientation. And antenna type too for that matter (eg, directionality of antenna, and polarization of emitted signal -- not the same thing at all, are issues here). All of these things must be considered if things are not working properly. \n\nAnd, after all the radio stuff is gotten right, there still remain issues having to do with security (ie, WEP or WAP or WAP2 or 802.11i (which is more or less WAP2)), and with the ordi
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NTFS is a better option . dont stop
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Raxco's PerfectDisk is better than Diskeeper.\n\nhttp://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/
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Check this Microcenter link for external HDD enclosures. You want USB 2.0 for a 2.5" HDD. Good Luck.\nhttp://www.microcenter.com/byos/byos_search_results_e.phtml?coordinate_group=HJ9B
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usually videocams are the ones that sometimes use firewire ... some external harddrives are firewire as well .... just get the usb2 only one imo ...
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Hi there...you can use a firewire cable and then transfer data via Firewire Target Disk Mode.  Here's the directions from Apple on how to do this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
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usb, its probably easier too
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yes, the plextor ConvertX should work for you if you want to use the USB rather than firewire.\nOtherwise there is the Canopus ADVC-110 which supports firewire 400.
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yes or you can use firewire in some cases
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Case USB 2.0 & Firewire\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145345\n250 GB disk, 8MB Cache, Ultra ATA 133, 3yrs warranty\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822152031
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http://www.1394ta.org/About/products/computer_products.html#Storage%20Devices\n\ntry u'r luck\n\ntake it to a friend, who has a pc running win xp & having firewire port, connect u'r Ikebana Fireblaster external hard drive\n\nsee if it works ... u can then decide best
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USB hard drives are the most convenient, but Firewire is faster and slightly more expensive.  Check out manufacturers like www.iomega.com, www.woverine.com, www.pocketec.com.  www.lacie.com, etc.  Tiger Direct and Priority Electronics have competitive prices.  The price is also dependent upon capacity, as larger means more expensive.
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Send them via email to someone who has a burner.  It will be time consuming . . .  You could get an Iomega Zip drive, they are laying around everywhere in offices these days, as nobody uses them much anymore.  (100 and 250 Meg drives)\nYeehaw!  A 1999 trick for 2006.
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You have to have boot from Firewire/ usb on your board, or have it boot from Usb as the first bootable device. Now, your board also has to support this feature... and hoanstly, why do you want do to this? this is just so pointless... if you want the speed, just get and IDE to Sata cross over bridge they are like 30 bucks.   Secondly, take it from a computer tek, its really pointless.