Anyone using Firewire 800?

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Anyone using Firewire 800?

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I'm about to put together a couple of removable drive bays, and wonder if I should move up to 800 from 400.
Does FW 800 work well, or more importantly, better with DP?
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Re: Anyone using Firewire 800?

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working great here with a DP 1.25 G4 and two Lacie Drives chained to each other on the FW800 Bus... very fast... Not sure about G5's... can anyone pitch in with FW800 on G5's ? I've heard it's not so good.
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Re: Anyone using Firewire 800?

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Using LaCie FW 800 on G4 Dual and G5 single processor, for music and DVD productions.

No worries here.
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Re: Anyone using Firewire 800?

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anyone use an external FW for streaming VI's?
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Re: Anyone using Firewire 800?

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I have been using LaCie Big disk extreme for video and audio on my G5 with no problem ...
Very good drive ....

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Re: Anyone using Firewire 800?

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Can you use MOTU hardware with Firewire 800? Could you use say a couple/few MOTU896's for tracking and or mixing through the MOTU units? I assume it would be a great benefit if you can. I assumed that the hardware does not work through the new FW800.

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Re: Anyone using Firewire 800?

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I'm using a laCie Firewire 800 for Streaming VI's. i have Mach5 and Ivory etc on it. Seems pretty good, although Ivory has a little trouble keeping up if I'm banging some big voicings fast (like in latin/jazz music). Maybe I need some more RAM?
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Re: Anyone using Firewire 800?

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I wonder if track count and/or performance is better with FW 800.....

I imagine performance would be better with a FW 400 audio interface with the FW800 drive being on a seperate bus.
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