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Replacing Firewire HD w/ CDRW drive? is this possible?

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airduct

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ladies and gents,

i posted this in peripherals, but got no response...can someone help?

Is it possible to replace a Maxtor Firewire HD w/ an internal IDE CDRW drive? I don't want to open the box case up if it doesn't work.

i would like to take out the hd from the firewire enclosure and replace it with a stock ide 12x cdrw? do i need any type of software bios upgrade or anything? let me know.

also, if the hd or cdrw are IDE, how is firewire able to increase its transfer speed? wouldn't the IDE cause a bottle neck? tia

 
Im afraid i cant answer your question but i can offer you some extra info on the following:-


<< also, if the hd or cdrw are IDE, how is firewire able to increase its transfer speed? wouldn't the IDE cause a bottle neck? tia >>


There was a review up at Storagereview IIRC where they benched an IDE drive against a Firewire and USB2 drive.
The IDE drive performed better than both the external models mainly due to it being able to achieve higher burst rates than the external types.
In real world apps the Firewire drive was pushing in the ~40/MB/s which is not dissimilar to your average IDE drive but cannot burst any higher 🙁 and the USB2 was pushing ~upper 20's/low 30'sMB/s.
The top and bottom of this is that the IDE HD is being bottlenecked by both the Firewire and the USB2 but not by its native IDE interface.
If i find the review later i will pop a linky up for you.

Hope this helped.
 
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