[geeks] Powerbook storage options

[velociraptor]

On 4/23/05, Micah R Ledbetter <vlack-lists at vlack.com> wrote:
> Nah, but a firewire device can work as a network device. It's 400Mb/sec,
and
> if that works out practically to actually be 4x as fast as 100Mb/sec
> ethernet, that's one of the cheapest ways I can increase speed.

I'd think that a local FW HD would be your cheapest/best method
since you do not have a PCMCIA slot available.

If you really need RAID, though, you can only do mirroring or
striping on the OS X SW RAID side (dunno if they ever put SW
RAID 5 into OS X Server or not).  Of course, FW bottlenecks
sooner than SCSI.

I think the biggest complaint about OS X's performance for high-
end video/music is as a direct result of people not realizing the
IDE/FW disk sub-system is just not as fast as a middle-of-the-
road SCSI.  They got sold a bill of goods by the marketers on
that one.

Take a look at barefeats.com for some Mac HW benchmarks.

=Nadine=