[Macworld]

Post your comments for LaCie intros Rugged HD multimedia drive here

[drimwit]

It's 500GB if you're wondering.

[wsstreet]

drimwit...thanks...I was just about to ask about size!

[malloon]

@drimwit
I was. Thank you.

[ptrondsen]

USB 2.0 for HD Video???!!!
I think Lacie needs to rethink this and add a Firewire 800 and eSATA.
USB 2.0 will take forever with HD Video.

[rab777hp]

Well considering that only macs use firewire...

[palane]

@rab777hp - Where have you been? We've had Firewire in our lab PCs for ages.
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[rab777hp]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewire

Of course you can put a firewire interface- but no one does, Apple basically invented it, and there are a few different standards around now for it, Apple is the only big proponenet.

[ptrondsen]

Both Macs and PC use Firewire, but the more important issue, is that if you're doing HD Video, you are going to want faster than 480Mbits/second, which USB 2.0 tops out at.


Firewire 800 transfer rates upto 800Mbits/second

eSATA transfer rates upto 3Gbit/second

It just doesn't make sense.

Lacie has to know this, they make a lot of products with eSATA and FW800, I just they're going cheap.

[wiggums]

maybe i'm wrong here, but the usb 2.0 is just to transfer files to and from the drive, who really cares if you need firewire or esata. I'm using a Western Digital Media Player, which handles more file formats and I use a MyBook USB 2.0 external drive, works just fine. If your wondering, my hackintosh runs both Vista and Mac OS X and comes natively with Three firewire ports on a Gigabyte Motherboard.