Apple has posted a message to its support site stating that the company has identified an issue with external FireWire hard drives using the Oxford 922 bridge chip-set with firmware version 1.02 that ...

Sometimes also called IEEE-1394, the FireWire standard allows for high-speed connections to external drives. FireWire 400 is roughly comparable to USB 2.0, and drives and ports using FireWire 800 are ...

WD (NYSE: WDC) today added a high-speed FireWire 800 interface to its popular My Passport™ Studio™ portable drive to give Mac computer users and creative professionals the fast performance they need.

When we tested the first Macs with FireWire 800 ports (Reviews, May 2003), we were hard put to find any peripherals to plug in to them. That’s not the case now: the number of available FireWire ...

From Other World Computing, some of the first external hard drives to work with the new FireWire 800 standard which promises transfer speeds of 800mbps, about twice as fast as regular old FireWire.

G-Technology’s G-Drive mobile is a portable, bus-powered external hard drive designed to compliment your Apple laptop. It has an attractive aluminum case, a three-year warranty, and boasts USB 3 and ...

Following a growing number of online reports of problems when using external FireWire 800 hard drives with the recently released Mac OS X 10.3, aka Panther, Apple late Friday issued a blanket warning ...

Two nine-pin standard FireWire 800 connectors allow for a 800-Mbps transfer rate for the Rocpro 800 AV. Capacities include 120, 160, 200, 250, 300, and 400 Gbytes, all with a 7200-rpm rotation speed.

A MacFixIt reader reports issues with running DiskWarrior 3.0.x on drives connected via FireWire 800 or SATA 150 or faster. The reader writes: "We were breaking down one of our test G5s (Gestalt ...

Now I realize that drives can sustain 40-50 MBps, but even so, 14 MBps is only 35% of that.<BR><BR>Also, it appears that the SIIG card on my PC will only do networking at 800 Mbps, even though it does ...

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