Had anyone had experience connecting an external Hard Drive to the Touchsmart via FIREWIRE?
In addition, has anyone had experience connecting multiple external hard drives by daisy-chaining the firewire?
Hi Curious,
I happen to have a Firewire hard drive here, and I'll try it out for you within the next hour. I only have one, so I can't test daisy chaining for you.
Mind Over Matt'er - Technology musings, opinion, and more straight from TechLore's head geek.
Hi Curious,
I hooked up my Firewire drive, and it worked just fine. Like I said, I can't test daisy chaining, but I've never had a problem daisy-chaining FW devices in the past.
Mind Over Matt'er - Technology musings, opinion, and more straight from TechLore's head geek.
That's terrific. Thanks very much for doing this and letting me know!!!
Did you notice if it was faster than the USB external connection? (I've never yet figured out if the Touchsmart has only USB 2.0 full speed, or high speed? -- Do you know?) In any case even if it's High Speed, I hear that firewire could be faster. Is that right?
I certainly didn't do any benchmarks using the TouchSmart, but I've always found the performance of drives connected via Firewire to feel a bit peppier than over USB, particularly during situations when you're reading and writing simultaneously. That being said, sustained transfers (reading or writing a big file and nothing else) via USB and IEEE-1394 have always seemed about the same to me. Most technical reviewers out there give Firewire the edge (and the benchmarks usually back up their conclusions) for external storage performance, and while I won't argue with them, I'm not sure I could say which was which in a blind test.
On the full speed/high speed question, I believe the answer is both. It supports USB 1.1 12Mbps and USB 2.0 480Mbps devices.
Mind Over Matt'er - Technology musings, opinion, and more straight from TechLore's head geek.
Hello,
My brand spanking new 816t is up and running beautifully. (I just wanted to say that)
I used my 500gb lacie d2 quadra 7200rpm remote hard drive for this test because, It has; USB2, Firewire 400 and 800 as well as an esata port. I transferred 200gb of .avi files split into two sessions.
using usb2 then f800 I maxed out at 30mbs with an average of around 25mbs for both.
I don't have the f400 to mini cable so can't test that config. and have yet to own any pc with an esata port.
fast enough for the girls I know.
Regards
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