From: Kin Jung (kin@tsw.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2001 - 15:30:52 PST
Hi,
The Scholar's Workstation offers an assortment of the VST/SmartDisk Firewire
drives. For details visit
<http://www.tsw.berkeley.edu/pricing/storage/ext_firewire.html>
Kin
on 12/4/01 2:13 PM, Ian Crew at icrew@socrates.berkeley.edu wrote:
> Bond:
>
> Yes, a firewire drive is the best idea for adding storage space
> (short of replacing the internal drive, which is possible but
> probably something you'd want to have Hardware Support do for you).
>
> Since's it's a powerbook, you probably want to purchase a
> 'bus-powered' hard drive such as the VST drives from Smart disk
> (http://www.smartdisk.com/Products/Storage%20Products/Hard%20Drives/FWHD.asp)
> or Apple's iPod (an external 5GB hard drive that just happens to
> include a very nice MP3 player :) ). "Bus-powered" drives can
> operated from the power supplied by the Firewire bus, which means
> they don't need a separate power adapter.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Ian
>
> At 1:22 PM -0800 12/4/01, Greg Merritt wrote:
>> I think you'll find that you'll want to use an external
>> Firewire drive. (There are also external USB drives, but these will
>> likely be a tad slow for your purposes.)
>>
>> Regards,
>> -Greg
>>
>>
>> At 1:07 PM -0800 12/4/01, E. Bond Francisco wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> It's been a LONG time since I used a powerbook, but I have use of a G4
>>> powerbook, OSX. I think it has a 4 G drive. I'm working on an iMovie. I need
>>> more space. Any comments on what equipment I could use to add storage space.
>>> I have a number of CD's with audio and video clips that I'd like to download
>>> to the PB so I can manipulate them. I assume we'd be talking about an
>>> external drive of some kind, but I'm not sure what the latest technology is.
>>> Any clues greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Bond
>>>
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>>>
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