ssl3 Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 I'm soon to get an audio interface. Everyone always says firewire, so thats what I figure on. Thinking Presonus Firepod. USB2 is out of the picture, maybe PCI or PCI express is a possibility. But the main question is, Like, when I run my firewire 800 drive its pretty fast. But when I chain on another firewire 800 drive, it seemsa lot slower. Not that I would normally hook it up that way, but will I have a bit of a bottleneck Using a FW800 drive and a FW interface? Do interfaces come in FW800? And would there be benefit to running the drive off the FW 800 port and the interface off of the FW400 port? Suppose I add later a Focusrite Liquidmix, thats also firewire. What can I do to make sure that I have the maximum speeds with all concerned? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeDunn Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 Im not sure if using a fw400 interface and a fw800 drive would slow anything down, although im pretty sure they use the same bus. I'm running a 17" MacBook Pro 2.16 with 2 gig of ram, a Motu Traveler (fw400) and a Lacie ext Drive (fw800) and have had no speed issues at all. Also, I haven't seen any fw800 interfaces.... just fw400... but they could exist. Luke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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