I like to keep my home office incredibly devoid of machine noise. To that end, other than my sound system (where I choose the noise), my workstation consists of 1.) A Mac mini running Lion Server on Raid 0 3.5" drives (2 x 500GB) and 2.)A Lacie quadra 1TB drive doing Firewire 800 Time Machine backups every hour (I put up with the Tsk, Tsk, Tsk, every hour without being annoyed). I need more storage, but don't want to increase the (lack of) noise factor...
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posted by Rafaelloello
on May 14, 2012 -
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I've replaced an aging iMac with 3 external drives hanging off of it with a Macbook Pro with the same 3 external drives hanging off of it.
The setup also includes a cable modem and a Time Capsule.
Right now the drives are in daisychained Firewire mode.
I'm looking for a way to connect the drives to my wifi network so I can eliminate the need to plug the first drive into the laptop? Staying with Firewire would be nice, but it's not a deal breaker.
posted by justcorbly
on Nov 4, 2011 -
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What are my options for connecting a bunch of legacy SCSI devices to a current Mac?
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posted by unSane
on Sep 10, 2010 -
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I do occasional audio recording with GarageBand. I just recently upgraded from a G4 tower to an Intel iMac w/Snow Leopard. I settled for analog audio in through the mic input on the G4 but I think I want to step up to digital input. I have an analog mixer, tube preamps, effects pedals, etc. so I don't need to have them in the audio interface. Midi I/O would also be nice but not necessary. What are my choices in a basic 2-channel Firewire(800)/USB(2.0) audio interface?
posted by tommasz
on Aug 2, 2010 -
5 answers
Macbook vs. Macbook Pro: are FireWire and the aluminum exterior worth the extra $200? Is there another difference I'm missing?
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posted by lunasol
on Feb 22, 2010 -
17 answers
How does one hook up a sixteen channel firewire mixer to a late 2008 mac? No firewire input. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thank you.
posted by johannahdeschanel
on Nov 4, 2009 -
6 answers
I'm video recording a long event through software on my Mac, and am using a USB-connected Panasonic camcorder. Since I'll need an external drive for the files, should I choose a USB disk or Firewire disk, or does it matter?
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posted by j-dawg
on Aug 20, 2009 -
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how do i have my working macbook connect to my non functioning macbook's harddrive? when i did it in the past a firewire symbol was floating around the screen.
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posted by andywolf
on Jun 4, 2009 -
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How can I install Windows 7 (via Boot Camp or rEFIt) from an ISO?
I think the Superdrive on my Macbook Pro (10.5.6) is on its last legs, because it ejects almost anything I put in it. (Meaning blank DVDs, and the DVD I burned of the ISO on my Windows XP desktop with ImgBurn). It's not extremely old (I got it refurbished on Christmas 2007), but still old enough to be out of warranty (at least I would think so).
What I have available:
1tb My Book Firewire External Hard Drive
4gb 1st gen iPod Nano, that isn't even formatted as an iPod right now, so it's basically just a 4gb USB flash drive. I know I can boot from it if it's set up right, because I've been using it with
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posted by N2O1138
on Mar 17, 2009 -
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What kind of transfer speeds should I be expecting from my new external Firewire 800 drive?
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posted by Venadium
on Jan 29, 2008 -
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Will attaching an external Firewire drive to my G4 Mac Mini make a big difference to booting speeds and application loading times?
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posted by salmacis
on Nov 20, 2007 -
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How can I set up a direct connection between my older pc that has windows xp and my new macbook pro?
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posted by zenja72
on Jul 21, 2007 -
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Audiophile-ter: I recently purchased a 20" dual core iMac. My EVENT TR6 monitors sit very close to the computer, input through a Firewire interface. I get noisy static from the Right speaker when the iMac is "thinking". What causes this, and how to remedy?
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posted by blastrid
on Mar 7, 2007 -
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I have a gray g4 running os 9, a g4 ibook running tiger, a firewire cable, a DVD copy of the tiger installation, and a burning desire to get tiger onto the (DVD drive-lacking) desktop. What are my options?
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posted by cmyr
on Jul 8, 2006 -
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Using work apps at home under OS X. How do I make an image of my work hard drive on an external Firewire hard drive, bring it home, boot up my Mac from it, and use the apps to do print production work?
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posted by rleamon
on Apr 2, 2006 -
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can someone recommend an app for recording video on a mac from dv input, but in a format more compact than dv?
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posted by Silky Slim
on Mar 3, 2006 -
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Macfirewirefilter: I just bought a minimate--250gigs. It shows up on my desktop as being 1000gigs plus. Do i really have that extra space? Is something wrong?
posted by amberglow
on Dec 2, 2005 -
6 answers
An excellent SCSI negative scanner seeks connection with firewire based Mac running OS X. What's a peripheral to do?
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posted by aladfar
on Sep 13, 2005 -
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Is there a way to connect an iMac running Tiger with a G4 running OS 9.2 via firewire so I can transfer files from my old system to the new one?
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posted by quadog
on Aug 10, 2005 -
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Why does my Mac sometimes go into kernel panic when I unplug the firewire webcam? It happens on a variety of occasions: sometimes multiple apps are open and CPU usage is high, other times it's right after a fresh reboot. (iBook G3/700Mhz, 384MB RAM, Mac OS X 10.2.8, and the webcam is a Unibrain Fire-I.)
posted by brownpau
on Jul 5, 2005 -
12 answers
I'm looking to buy an external firewire hard drive for my aging G4.
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posted by item
on May 16, 2005 -
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My mother has an older iMac running on OS9. I'd like to upgrade her to a new one but can't afford it right now. I need to buy an external firewire or USB CDRW that will work with OS9 so she can easily back up her digital photography; can anyone suggest something decent and cheap?
posted by luriete
on Dec 1, 2004 -
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I've just bought a Lacie 160 gigabyte firewire drive. It's to be plugged into a Windows XP machine, but also to be written to and read by a Mac OSX machine. I want to format it with the FAT32 file system, but Windows won't let me. Is there a way to force the drive to format as FAT32? [More inside...]
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posted by skylar
on Oct 28, 2004 -
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